Harold Ramis Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.”

“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.”

“It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.”

“As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.”

“There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.”

“I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.”

“I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.”

“I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.”

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

“You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.”