Rick Moranis Quotes
"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."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Television)
"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."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Beer, College, Drinking, Kids, Will)
"A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Family, Home, Years)
"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."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Movies, Travel, Kids)
"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Film, Want)
"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."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Old, Trying)
"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."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Thinking, Want)
"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Movies)
"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."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Music, Country, Country music, Jazz, Listening, Opera, Taste)
"I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me."
- Rick Moranis
"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."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Worry)
"And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Movies, Years)
"About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Songs)
"I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Today)
"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Taste)
"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material."
- Rick Moranis
(Related: Movies, Being, Hollywood)