#om

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

— Harold Ramis

#i #just #laziness #never #self-respect

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#more #nothing #professional #reinforces #relationship

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. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#almost #audience #big #feel #going

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

— Harold Ramis

#down #fall #funny #i #just

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. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#accept #act #action #criminals #first

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#club #college #comedies #country #country club

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#form #i #matter #say #still

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#cutting room #discover #length #movie #optimal

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#always #animal #animal house #comedy #could

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#comedy #going #hopefully #just #long