Rick Moranis Quotes (25 Quotes)

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

For some reason I just started writing these songs. And I was singing them to a couple of friends on the phone. After I had three or four, they started saying to me that I should do something with them.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

It's just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the '80s. Folks who know me think it's hilarious.

It's hard to improvise that kind of stuff, whereas the McKenzies are easy to improvise, because it's the two of us, and the material is pretty basic.

I'm a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies.

I've always been bad at planning things.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

I've never lost my taste for bluegrass.

The music is pretty simple It's, you know, it's country music. There's a couple of melodies that are okay, I guess.

I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.