Harold Ramis Quotes

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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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  • At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

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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.

    Source: www.believermag.com
  • If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's nothing to be afraid of. That's the sappy part of it, ... On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my 'Ghostbusters' jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts.

  • I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

  • I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

    "Comedy First" By Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2004.
  • You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

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  • The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

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  • If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.

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  • I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

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  • I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

    "Harold Ramis, Seeker" by Ray Pride, newcityfilm.com. February 24, 2014.
  • When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke.

    Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.
  • I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off.

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  • I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

    Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May - November 2005.
  • I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

  • Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

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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've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

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  • Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.

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  • How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

    "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today Interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.
  • Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

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  • You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

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  • With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.

    Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.
  • The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

  • Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

    "Fictional character: Russell Ziskey". "Stripes", www.imdb.com. 1981.
  • Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • 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.

    Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.
  • I've tried to stay away from mild satire. I want an audience to feel something more powerful for their ten bucks. If they're going to spend two hours with me, and trust me to lead them around, I'd like to take them someplace special.

    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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