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If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

Bill Murray

You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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Back Country Financing Money Movie
We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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Cherries Ice Cream Syrup
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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Crazy Jobs People
I 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.
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Doctors Ideas Jobs
Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
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Anything Children Say Talking
Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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Awards Day Groundhog Script
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
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Future Gone Past Wells
The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.
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Ass Famous Giving Two Years
When I started, the scripts weren’t as good, and you’d have to have a huge burst of energy to go, “Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff’s no good.”
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Energy Everything Relax Trying Visual
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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Golf Kids Play
Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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Being Hardest Jobs Yourself
The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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Better Keep Needs Things
You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
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Body Elevate Emotions Something
I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
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Lucky Needs Want
The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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Kids Names Numbers
I don’t answer fan mail. I don’t have time for that. It’s like hundreds of thousands of people who think they’re going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don’t have time for those idiots. I’ve got stuff to do.
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