Harold Ramis Quotes - Page 4

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• The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You're always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before.

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  Thinking, Technology, Engineering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Names, Ambitious, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, People, Sick

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• 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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  Laughter, Groundhog Day, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.

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  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 1, 2006.

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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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  Heart, Successful, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.

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  Writing, Play, Good Movie

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel uncomfortable with. At a certain point, it's no longer about what I thought was right, but it's about this new discovery that happens with the actors. It's nice when the actor is also a writer.

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  Nice, Discovery, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Moving, Actors, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  People, Perception, Bills

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Impact, Giving, Credit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

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  Nice, Writing, Luxury

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Block, Thinking, Preparation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  People, Church, States

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me things that don't appear to be true. Either I'm crazy or they're crazy." That creates the Absurd Child. The Absurd Child is one who says, "Well, I think they're crazy." So you live in this state of alienation from your culture and your society and your family because you see this rampant bullshit around you.

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  Children, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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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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  People, Giving, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

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  Parent, Protect, Misinformation

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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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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  Sadness, Choices, Sometimes

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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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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  Drama, Trying, Comedy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

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  Usual, Cards, Want

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

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  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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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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  Writing, Ideas, Performing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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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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  Mistake, Doctors, Would Be

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

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  Growing Up, Robins, Three

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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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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  Years, People, Laughing

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