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Harold Ramis
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: November 21
Died: 2014
Died: February 24
Actor
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Chicago
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Harold Allen Ramis
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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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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The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.
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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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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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I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.
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It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.
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You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.
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Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
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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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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
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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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You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.
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When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.
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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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I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.
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Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!
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I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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