I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
— Harold Ramis
I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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.
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
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.
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.