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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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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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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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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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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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Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy.
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No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.
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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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Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.
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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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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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I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is also going to direct, you're doing all your preparation: You're already visualizing everything, you're imagining how the lines are going to be read, you see the blocking in your head, and you know the rhythm and the pacing.
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Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.
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I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.
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Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.
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I've never taken a script to the stage or to principal photography and said, This is perfect. This is as good as it can possibly be. It's not Shakespeare, you know you know it can probably be better.
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I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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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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