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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
Harold Ramis
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Harold Ramis
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: November 21
Died: 2014
Died: February 24
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Chicago
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Harold Allen Ramis
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Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.
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Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.
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Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
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First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
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When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, Oh, that's so perfectly Bill. He'd read it and say, Are you kidding? I can't say these words. So it's all about perception.
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I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
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I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well. I want people to say, You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy? That's right, I do everything.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
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Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
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I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
Harold Ramis
My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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