I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on... Garry Marshall More Quotes by Garry Marshall More Quotes From Garry Marshall It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. Garry Marshall worthwhile helpful mistake I'm too old to be forced. Garry Marshall Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with. Garry Marshall lunch people If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t. Garry Marshall comedy eye looks I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens. Garry Marshall crazy memorable fun Never underestimate the power of your sister. Garry Marshall never-underestimate underestimate One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off. Garry Marshall stars i-like-you people There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it Garry Marshall satisfaction writing feels You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this. Garry Marshall umpires parent kids Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing Garry Marshall shooting process editing I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics. Garry Marshall numbers people thinking I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.' Garry Marshall scripts theatre who-i-am If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me? Garry Marshall creative directors firsts I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it. Garry Marshall form made art I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk. Garry Marshall wells moving I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything. Garry Marshall hurt character thinking [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 fighting beach thinking 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 fighting stupid moving People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners. Garry Marshall team water people 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 reflection writing years
