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Talking Pictures

Bill Murray

Talking Pictures

TCM and Max

Tv & Film

4.8713 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Season two of Talking Pictures is here! Bill Murray doesn’t do a lot of podcasts, but he was game to talk movies with host Ben Mankiewicz. They dive into his comedies (Stripes, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day) and discuss the directors Murray works with repeatedly (Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch). Murray remembers growing up a “bad boy” in a house with eight siblings and how success impacted his mom. Finally, our Super 8 returns and you don’t want to miss the prop Bill Murray says he would steal for his personal collection.                                                                           Films Mentioned:  Meatballs  Ghostbusters   Stripes  Caddyshack  Groundhog Day  Broken Flowers  Lost in Translation  Rushmore  Red River  Frankenstein  Dracula  The Fugitive  Going My Way  Bells of Saint Mary's  Yankee Doodle Dandy  The Sound of Music  The Razor's Edge  Mad Dog and Glory  Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer  Olive Kitteridge *  Moonrise Kingdom  The Royal Tenenbaums  The Grand Budapest Hotel  Coffee and Cigarettes *  The Limits of Control  The Dead Don’t Die  Bottle Rocket  Asteroid City  Barry Lyndon  Gallipoli  Ninotchka  Old Yeller  The Man with Two Brains  Nothing but Trouble                                        *Available on Max as of 11/12 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I thought that this script was as good and the movie is as good as anything I ever did.

0:06.7

And when I finished it and I saw it, I thought, well, I can't really do any better.

0:11.3

And I thought, I decided I was going to stop, but that was it.

0:14.8

I couldn't do any better than that.

0:16.7

Do you think you've done better than it since?

0:19.1

Well, I'm glad I didn't stop, but I stopped for a while, and then I thought once it's

0:23.6

to enter, and you know, you kept thinking, well, I'll just become a sculptor or, you know, whatever

0:29.6

the hell.

0:30.4

Maybe I'll just become a railroad engineer.

0:32.6

I'll be, you know, something, nothing.

0:35.6

I have no other talent.

0:39.7

Actor Bill Murray grew up just north of Chicago

0:42.2

and a large Irish Catholic family,

0:44.9

one of six boys and three girls.

0:47.4

After high school, he joined the improv comedy troupe Second City.

0:51.8

By 1977, Bill was a cast member on Saturday Night Live,

0:56.2

where he created characters like Nick the Lounge singer.

1:00.6

Ah, Star Wars,

1:04.0

nothing but Star Wars,

1:07.5

give me the Star Wars,

1:13.2

don't let them end.

1:23.7

Murray's very first movie role was Ivan Reitman's 1979 comedy Meatballs, where he plays a summer camp counselor.

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