The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
BILL MURRAYThe way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
BILL MURRAYYou’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
BILL MURRAYAnd when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.
BILL MURRAYI’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
BILL MURRAYAll parties are good.
BILL MURRAYI wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.
BILL MURRAYYou can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
BILL MURRAYI kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
BILL MURRAYI don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.
BILL MURRAYIt just doesn’t matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter!
BILL MURRAYIn Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.
BILL MURRAYDon’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
BILL MURRAYIf you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say ‘Did you just see what I saw?!’, you’ll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
BILL MURRAYZombies dont mess with other zombies.
BILL MURRAYI’m a nut, but not just a nut.
BILL MURRAYNow, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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