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If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

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Garry Marshall
Age: 81 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 13
Died: 2016
Died: July 19
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The Bronx
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Garry Kent Marshall
Garry K. Marshall
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[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.
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I really wasn't too interested in writing Father Knows Best and Ozzie And Harriet. I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.
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In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the Laverne & Shirley TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.
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I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It was a great visit and I do a whole-behind-the-scenes thing and I tell stories about Bette [Mudler] and Barbara Hershey and everybody and that was fun. It made me cry again.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
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I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.
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I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
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I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'
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I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for LA Confidential which was great.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.
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Never underestimate the power of your sister.
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I'm too old to be forced.
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That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.
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He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.
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I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.
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You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches and we did very well. The album of Beaches went gold.
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One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off.
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