Art & Creativity Quote by Harold Ramis

Ramis is doing a very Hollywood thing here: confessing intimacy while keeping the door ajar for the better offer. The line sells vulnerability ("a personal story of my own") but frames it as deliberate, even leisurely: "at some point". That casual timing isn’t evasive so much as protective. For a comedian-director who built a career turning male insecurity into mainstream entertainment, the promise of something personal functions like a résumé flex: I have depth, I just don’t need to prove it on demand.

The second sentence sharpens the pitch. "It’s a film that I will happily make" is unusually sunny phrasing in an industry built on compromise. "Happily" implies creative control, a project aligned with his own taste, not a hired-gun assignment. Then comes the real subtext: "It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great". That’s Ramis balancing sincerity with professional pragmatism, signaling openness without sounding desperate. He’s also placing himself in the position of curator. The world can interrupt his autobiography only if it brings him a script worthy of derailing it.

Context matters: Ramis came up through Second City and the 1980s comedy boom, where personal voice was often smuggled inside genre. This quote reads like a late-career artist hinting at a final turn inward while acknowledging the seduction of a truly good idea. It’s ambition with a comedian’s shrug: I’m ready to get honest, but make it irresistible.