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Michael Ritchie [1938-2001] American
Rank: 107
Director, Film director


Michael Brunswick Ritchie was an American film director of films with comical or satirical leanings, such as The Candidate and Smile. He scored commercial successes directing sports films like The Bad News Bears and Chevy Chase's Fletch comedies.


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I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.
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I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.
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Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.
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I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.
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Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.
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I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.
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I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.
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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
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The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful.
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I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.
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In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.
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Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.
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There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
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It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.
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