Harold Ramis Quotes

Meaning is all that's really left to me... There's a character in my remake of Bedazzled... and he says: 'Every time I reread Camus and Sartre I always say to myself: Why does the existential dilemma have to be so damned bleak? Yes, we're alone in the universe, life is meaningless and death is inevitable - but is that necessarily so depressing? It just puts the burden on us to fill our lives with joy and wonder and weirdness and adventure - whatever it is that makes your heart pound, your mind expand and your spirit soar.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

There’s a great rabbinical motto that says you start each day with a note in each pocket. One note says, “The world was created for you today,” and the other note says, “I’m a speck of dust in a meaningless universe,” and you have to balance both things.

No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don’t have interesting characters and a good story to tell.