Garry Marshall - biography

Biography

Garry Marshall is best-known for the following films:

Garry Marshall Quotes

“Tom Hanks is in what I’d call the Hat Pack. You know, a bunch of guys who occasionally wear hats, and that’s about as wild as they get.”

“Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.”

“When I edit, I’m not from the school of Hello, I’m a genius, so everybody shut up. I’m from the school of Let’s play it once in front of an audience, and then I’ll tell you where it is going.”

“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.”

“Religion has a good place and it has its good people.”

“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 don’t get crazy, see what happens.”

“I don’t sit well. I like to move around as I talk.”

“It’s a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can’t really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.”

“There’s no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.”

“We can’t compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.”

Filmography

The Film Director