SHORT TAKES : Actor Murray Tries Directing

NEW YORK — Actor Bill Murray took on a new role for his latest movie “Quick Change”--he directed it.

Murray, who forged dozens of personalities on “Saturday Night Live,” “Scrooged,” “Stripes” and “Ghostbusters,” said the directing stint was humbling.

“I don’t think directing is particularly for me,” he told the latest edition of Premiere magazine. “Basically I’m a lazy person. Acting is much more fun. It’s so much less work.”

The Warner Brothers crime caper, “Quick Change,” is about a New Yorker who dresses up as a clown, robs a bank and splits town, or at least tries to.

Not only did Murray direct it, he also produced it, and--of course--starred in it. “See, I sort of succeeded beyond the level of my ability,” he said.