Quotes from Garry Marshall

My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.

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

I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.

I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

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

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

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.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

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.

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.