Latest Garry Marshall Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

  Garry Marshall

  Home, Directors, Littles

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• I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky 13", it's a low budget picture, it stars Jeremy Dillon, Daryl Hannah and Jami Gertz.

  Garry Marshall

  Stars, Son, Directors

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• In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

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  Beach, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• Time moves on but Barbara Hershey's doing good and John Heard, they're all people working. I know there were a couple of kids in that movie who I used who have been in other movies since Beaches.

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  Beach, Couple, Moving

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• I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Littles, Might

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• I don't know about immortal, but I must say that to me to touch more women and to have them understand friendships is important. I've had girls come up to me who said, "Yeah, after I saw 'Beaches' I called up my friend Denise who I was really mad at. She got me so aggravated and I called her and we made up." So if I could do that with this new release, yes, that would be very pleasing to me because, hey, it's a tough world. You need friends out there.

  Garry Marshall

  Girl, Beach, Mad

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I was very proud of that, of taking women and making them vulnerable and so I continued doing that. Right after Beaches I did "Pretty Woman", then I did "Frankie and Johnnie" and then I did "Other Sister" and "Princess Diaries" so that helped me get into the vein there of understanding women and trying to make them very pretty and very interesting.

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  Beach, Princess, Interesting

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• I'm too old to be forced.

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• I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great.

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  Beach, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• [Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Flying, Comedy

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• Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

  Garry Marshall

  Stupid, Moving, Fighting

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• You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches and we did very well. The album of Beaches went gold.

  Garry Marshall

  Song, Beach, Gold

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• [The movie Beaches] was really about how women fight. Women fight, say terrible things to each other and an hour later they make up and go shopping. I think they got the better idea of how it should be done.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Men, Thinking

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• I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

  Garry Marshall

  Daughter, Two, Different

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• My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you... I don't call them chick flicks.

  Garry Marshall

  Mother, Teacher, Blow

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• Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.

  Garry Marshall

  Running, Rising, Position

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• I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.

  Garry Marshall

  Strong Women, Brother, Two

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• I was crying when I was editing [Beacher] but I stopped all the screenings years ago because I had a headache but then I had seen it again... Well I always cry at the same place, when they play that song "Wind Beneath My Wings". It gets you.

  Garry Marshall

  Song, Wind, Play

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• I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.

  Garry Marshall

  Thinking, Care, Said

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• I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It was a great visit and I do a whole-behind-the-scenes thing and I tell stories about Bette [Mudler] and Barbara Hershey and everybody and that was fun. It made me cry again.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Fun, Cutting

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• My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this is not good enough. We got to create our own shows. I said, but we're very happy doing this. No, no, no, you got to get your own show. So he made me - and he and I created our own shows. And we actually - everything we created failed. "Hey, Landlord" was our first show - 99th in the ratings. But imagine this - it's a great reflection on the years.

  Garry Marshall

  Writing, Reflection, Years

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

• You can't have an actor where the audience says, aw, that poor, sweet guy. You got to get somebody who's, like, nondescript in a way or just somebody that looks a little like they should get it. So this is all I learned actually learn from Lucy [Ball].

  Garry Marshall

  Sweet, Guy, Actors

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

• I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

  Garry Marshall

  Years, Balls, Taught

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

• He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

  Garry Marshall

  Writing, Way, Hollywood

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.