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Garry Marshall Biography

Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for creating Happy Days and its various spin-offs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television, and directing Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve, Mother's Day, The Princess Diaries, and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

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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?

Creative, Directors, Firsts, Hire, Partner, Thing

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

Never Underestimate, Power, Sister, Underestimate

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.

Team, People, Water, Method, Show

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

Front, Genius, Hello, Play, School, Shut

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

Creative, Economics, Numbers, People, Thinking

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.

Character, Hurt, Stitches, Thinking

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

Compete, Competition, Figured, Gibson, Mel, Part

My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you. . . I don't call them chick flicks.

Area, Blow, Dance, Male, Mother, Teacher

I like to get up in the morning and see people.

Get Up, Like, Morning, People, See

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.

Crazy, Fun, Memorable, Total

I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.

Ambitious, Hollywood, Paar, Writer, Writing

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.

Clubs, Comedian, Handing, Lighter, Lit, Writing

[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.

Beach, Fighting, Hour, Shopping, Think, Thinking

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

Beach, Men, Thinking, See, Understand

You can't have an actor where the audience says, aw, that poor, sweet guy. You got to get somebody who's, like, nondescript in a way or just somebody that looks a little like they should get it. So this is all I learned actually learn from Lucy [Ball].

Actor, Ball, Balls, Guy, Sweet

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

Editing, Movie, Process, Shooting, Work

For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

Bishop, Bishops, Joey, Joke, Kind, Soul

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

Comedic, Like, Smooth, Sound, Way

[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

Beach, Comedy, Flying, Having, Like, Somebody

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

Beach, Film, History, Show, Tv Shows, Tvs

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