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...Zucker: The first thing people think when they see our movies is that we're stoned all the time, or at least that we are when we write them, which is not true. None of us does any drugs or really ever drinks particularly...
...Minutes recently interviewed Jerry Zucker, writer/director of Airplane: The Movie, The Naked Gun, and Ghost. Brain Donors is his latest foray into the zany world of cinema slapstick...
...Jerry Zucker: It's a long process, but, basically, we sit in a room--my brother David [Zucker] and I, or Jim [Abraham] and David and I--and we just start thinking of ideas. We have a general idea of what we want...
...Zucker: Very little. Maybe 5 percent or something like that. We really spend a lot of time working on the script...
...Zucker: We don't really think in terms of target audiences. We write movies basically for ourselves. The target audience is us. The gamble is that there are enough people that laugh at what we laugh at or cry at what we cry at or whatever--that the movies will work...