Harold Ramis Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• 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

  Summer, Country, Military

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

• I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

  Harold Ramis

  Drama, Expression, Giving

  "Harold Ramis, Seeker" by Ray Pride, newcityfilm.com. February 24, 2014.

• The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

  Harold Ramis

  Spirit, Comedy, Capture

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

  Harold Ramis

  Men, Immature, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

  Harold Ramis

  Expression, Comedy, Dramatic

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.

  Harold Ramis

  Actors, Comedy, Language

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

  Harold Ramis

  Drama, Trying, Comedy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

  Harold Ramis

  Names, Ambitious, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughing, Tragedy, Comedy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

  Harold Ramis

  Important, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

  Harold Ramis

  Lessons, Pay, Scripts

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• 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

  Animal, Opportunity, Giving

• 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.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughter, Groundhog Day, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

  Harold Ramis

  Ideas, Comedy, Bigger

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.

  Harold Ramis

  School, Views, Balance

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

  Harold Ramis

  Redemption, Comedy, Genre

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, "If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home."

  Harold Ramis

  Home, Character, Addiction

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

  Harold Ramis

  Heart, Successful, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

  Harold Ramis

  Couple, Thinking, Profound

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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