All language subtitles for Acteurs Et Actrices Murray Bill Life Lessons from a Mythical Man

[man] You never heard
the bathroom story?

I couldn't believe you never--
You 've heard it before?

I have no idea what
you're talking about, dude.

No idea what I'm talking about.

Why do I hang out With you two?

Ok, so this happened
to a friend of mine's buddy.

Did you see that article
that I posted earlier?
Look, it's right here.

It's about that new coffee shop
they're building downtown.

Alright, everyone.
Gather around.

I've got a story for you.
It's only fitting that
I tell it tonight.

Because you see it happened
on a night just like tonight.

[man] I forget where, but he was at a bar somewhere in the city.

-So he finishes his beer
and told everyone...
-I gotta take a leak.

[woman] It's crazy. All these
construction worker guys

are just working on the
coffee shop doing, you know,
construction-worker-things.

And then they all start
to hear this noise.

[man] There was a campus party,
like any other.

The music is loud,
keg is flowing. It's packed.

As the story goes, there
is this freshman kid.

It's his first big party. He's in line waiting for a beer.

But, they're all
out of red cups.

So he's gotta make his way
into the kitchen to find
an appropriate drinking glass.

So my man walks to the bathroom.
He's at the urinal
minding his own business,

when all of a sudden someone puts their hands over his eyes.

And he leans in
and whisper in his ear:
"No one will ever believe you."

As they all look up,
they see him

standing there. He just walked
right into the place,

everyone on the site froze.

The whole party is full
of college kids like myself.

But then there is this
one older man, as if
he appeared out of nowhere.

So the kid steps closer,
and his jaw drops.

-Who was it?
-It was Bill Murray.

-Bill Murray.
-Bill Murray.

-Come on, bullshit!
-What was he even doing there?

[woman] He wanted
to read everyone poetry.

For some reason Bill Murray
was at some random
college kids party,

doing everyone's dishes.

Wait! So, Bill Murray just shows
up at this almost coffee shop
to read people poetry?

[woman] On this
particular day, he did, yeah.

How was this iconic movie star
walking into this dirty,
shitty bathroom,

covering random people's eyes
and whispering in their ear:

"No one will ever believe you."
Then he walked away.

-Seriously?
-Dude, I'm telling you. It
happened to my friend's buddy.

-He told me it happened.
-And you believed him?

Stuff like this
happens all the time.

Yeah, Bill Murray
visiting you in the bathroom

happens all the time.

You can joke all you want,
but I'm serious.

It's not always the bathroom.
Sometimes he hops in your
engagement photos.

Or sing a song
at a base-ball game.

Hell, he'll even jump in
a random kickball game if
you let him.

But the point is, it happens.

[Man]
Why would he do that?

That's just how the stories go.

[intro music]

[music fades out]

[Tommy] This picture
is kind of important.

But we can get to that later.

See I'm the guy on the right.

This movie is about
the guy on the left.

Hello, I'm Bill Murray,
You can call me Billy.

But around here everybody
just calls me The New Guy.

[Tommy] The world was introduces to Bill in 1976 on Saturday Night Live.

From his roots in
improv and sketch comedy,

Bill was quickly launched into
a blockbuster film career.

Starring in iconic films that
help define generations of
comedy to come.

After decades of notable
comedic performances

Bill transitioned into acquire
more dramatic roles.

Bill's onscreen presence
shifted towards more mature
parts as he got older.

No matter what the character,
funny or serious, people love
Bill Murray, the actor.

But more importantly, they
love Bill Murray, the person.

Ladies and gentlemen
please welcome the one,
the only Bill Murray. Bill!

♪ And I...

♪ Will always love you

[Tommy] Bill is fun. When people see him in interviews just being himself

the people around Bill
are having fun.

Who wants a T-shirt?

[Tommy] So what happens
when Bill leaves the set and goes back to being a normal guy?

That's where things
get specially interesting.

There is just
something special about him. Something that drives people to

put his face on T-shirts,
bumper stickers, pillow cases,
even prayer candles.

But beyond all the novelty
items, there is
something much bigger.

There are a legion of seemingly unbelievable tall tales

about Bill that circulates
online throughout the years.

These so called Bill Murray stories, are random interactions

with Bill
and regular everyday people.

They range
from him stealing a strangers
French Fries at an airport

to randomly showing up at some
college kids' house party
to wash the dishes.

But where does this stories come from? Is there any truth
to these encounters?

Why would such a big celebrity
physically insert himself
into this random situations?

♪ Lets get physical, physical

[Tommy]
Eventually all these questions
came to a head for me.

And I wanted to understand what deeper meaning this Bill Murray stories might hold.

Regardless of whether
they are true or not.

If I was going to get to
the bottom of it all,

-I wanted to talk to
the man himself.
-Hello!

Most celebrities have
managers or agents,

Bill has neither.
All he has is a 1-800 number.

It's just an answering machine that he'll eventually check and hopefully he'll get back to you.

And getting that 1-800 number
is extremely difficult.

But from a friend of a friend
of a friend, I was able
to get hold of it.

This will be my first call.
Is it in focus?

[answering machine] Please
select one of
the following options

followed by the pound key. To send a numeric page, enter one.

To leave
a voice message enter two.

To send a text message,
enter three.

Please begin speaking your
message at the tone.

Hello, Mr. Bill Murray.
My name is Tommy Avallone.

I'm a documentary film director.

And I wanted
to do a story with you.
Oh, dear.

[answering machine]
To cancel press the star key.

Message canceled.
Please begin speaking your
message at the tone.

I'm a documentary director.

I direct documentary's.

And I want to talk to you
about this new documentary.

I figure I'd say documentary
a few more times.

[answering machine] Message canceled. Please select one of the following options

followed by the pound key.

Hello, Mr. Bill Murray.
My name is Tommy Avallone.

And I want to talk to you about
this project I have that I think
would be perfect.

Jesus Christ!

[Tommy]
So, if getting a hold of Bill is gonna take some time,

my next best bet was to start
tracking down someone from one
of these stories.

[answering machine]
Message canceled.

[phone tone]

-[Raheel] Hello.
-[Tommy] Hello, is this Raheel?

Yeah, this is Raheel.

Cool, it's Tommy Avallone.
I was talking to you on email.

[Tommy] You took the Bill Murray
engagement photo, right?

[Raheel laughing] It still feels
like it wasn't me.

Yeah, I mean anytime
you look online for any
of these Bill Murray lists,

I mean you're still always
one of the top five.

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. It's just...yeah...

Hang out in Charleston then you might just see him walking on
the street crossing the road

I guess, you know, you wanna be in Charleston, your odds are way better when it goes with Bill.

OK, cool.
I'll see you Thursday.

South Carolina.

[energetic music]

[background song playing]

I figure if I just stand here
with a camera crew,
he'll find me, right?

He's across the street.

-Hello! I realize I didn't
know what you looked like.
-Raheel.

-[Tommy] How are you
doing, man? Tommy.
-[Rachel] Very nice to meet you.

[Tommy] This is Derrick,
John and Max.

Awesome, how is your trip going
in Charleston so far?

Great! It's the first time
we have ever been here.
It's really nice.

Really? It's awesome,
it's like, living here

it's like being
on vacation all the time.

So where
did you take the photos?

-On those staircases there.
-Oh, Wow!

[Raheel]
I'm a wedding photographer.
I take pictures all the time.

Usually we're just walking
around taking pictures
of couples.

I was doing this
with Ashley and Eric.

We approached
this beautiful staircase.

Beautiful historic house.

And I ask Eric and Ashley
to have a seat.

And I get ready to photograph.

As I look through the lens,
I'm seeing Eric

kind of making these weird
gestures with his eyes.
Kind of like...

I look at him, like:
"Eric, look at the camera."

And he's kind of like this weird
look going past my head.

So, times like this, what I
usually think, there is these
carriages going past and

sometimes people
are really nice.
They say: "Congratulations."

And sometimes people are like
whistling and saying:
"Hey, you're hot!"

And I look behind me, almost
ready to say something nasty to
someone that is distracting him.

And I see this guy.

And as I looked closer,
it's actually Bill Murray

slapping his belly really loud
and just rubbing it
like there is no tomorrow.

I look back at the couple
and they're mesmerized
that it's actually Bill Murray.

And I'm like:
"Bill come on let's do
a photo with the couple."

Now usually
when you ask someone to get
in a picture with a couple,

you would expect them to come
in and kind of be like this

Not Bill. He has
a signature look on his face

I think this
photo is mislabeled.

It wasn't a photobomb

where he just randomly
popped up in a photo.

But at the end of the day,
Bill showing up
in the most unexpected of places

giving a piece of himself,
giving a little
memory to someone,

memory-bombing would be
a more appropriate turn.
But that's kind of what it is.

[Tommy] Raheel was
on to something.
He claimed Charleston was home

of a ton of Bill Murray stories. And it seemed to make sense

because Bill spends
a lot of time down here.

Not only is he the owner
of a local restaurant,

but he's also part owner
of the Charleston RiverDogs,

a minor league baseball team.

So I didn't have to
go far for my next story.

Our favorite party crasher
Bill Murray is at it again.

The actor busted a move or two
while at a birthday party
in South Carolina.

He goes about how he ended up
at the bachelor hazy, but it
looks like he had a ton of fun.

[Brett] Bill Murray and I had
been friends for a little while.

We have some relationships
with his kids and my kids.

[phone ringing]
Who is that?

Ah, that's a fucking
reminder for me to be here.

I'm here. Let's do that again.

[party music]

My Bill Murray story,
so we where
at a friend of mine's house.

It was his 50th birthday.
He had struck up
a relationship with Bill.

And they had discussed that it
was their mutual birthday.
Now they know that I'm coming.

And a couple of people had known
that they had made a phone call

to Bill and see
if he would show up.

And we're just about
to sit down for dinner.

Knock at the door, through the
garage door comes Bill Murray.

He sits down
at the head of the table.
He's just a regular guest.

And everybody--
I mean, you got 20 people from
Jedburgh, South Carolina.

Just like: "Holy shit,
what the hell is he doing here?"

And it wasn't until the people
needed the energy.

And you know they were having
some chilled music on.

And he just took over
and played the DJ.

And then just got in there
and just cutting up dancing.

And I'm like: "Hold on,
I've got to check this out.

[party music]

[Brett]
But it wasn't a five minute DJ.

It was a 30 to 45 minute,

and he's dancing
with everybody in the house.

I don't know if he can
understand it, or if I can
even understand on that night.

Just the impact and the change
he had on that group of people

for that night,
forever in their mind.

[cheering]

And took pictures
with everybody in there.

Took his time,
made sure that everyone
had special attention.

Before you knew it,
Boom! Houdini, gone.

[Tommy] So why do you
think these news outlets have
picked up on the story?

[Brett] It's not that one
episode, is why they picked up
on it. A bit it's because

it's a series of
this kind of urban legend.

I don't think people
can figure out the purpose
of why he would do that.

You know, why would he show up
to some one's house? Who are
these people? What are they?

There's got to be
a larger purpose than him just

doing something cool and
unique for some people that

he felt whatever was in his
brain and his heart.
"I need to do this."

I'm gonna give you
all this advice.

Why does he show up at
restaurants and give life advice

to people
who are about to get married.

Why does he show up
here there and everywhere?

I's like, you know,
where is Waldo?

[Tommy] It was starting
to look like some
of these stories were true.

But they couldn't all be true,
could they?
As I left South Carolina,

Bill is off making a new Bill Murray story.

[sport commentator]

[woman reporter]
What a game!

[sport commentator]
Grand slam!

[women reporter]
A Grand Slam
by the Chicago Cubs.

It's history making stuff.
And this lucky Cubs fan

got to witness every minute.
Thanks to actor Bill Murray.

Murray actually gave
this complete stranger

a priceless
ticket to the big game.

She was wearing a Cubs' shirt.
She is a Cubs fan.

Bill Murray sees her as he
is walking into the stadium.

He says: "What are you doing?"
She goes: "I'm trying
to get a ticket."

He goes: "Come on!" And he
brings her into the stadium.

[woman reporter] Roker also show this goofy Video

of Murray playing
hairdresser with another fan.

[sports reporter]
Grand Slam!

[Woman reporter]
What a memorable night!

And thanks to Bill Murray

a night this fan
will never forget.

[Tommy] As much as I wanted
to meet Bill, this was
more of a search for answers

than a hunt to find him.
And as I kept seeing more and
more of these stories pop up,

I started to feel like
I might be getting somewhere.

[indistinct singing]

South By Southwest is a huge
music festival that happens
here in Austin.

Also now includes film,
people come from
all over the world.

It's generally a pretty crazy
party here in town.

♪ Still look good, girl
My mama warned ♪

So South By Southwest 2010.

The bar had only been open
for about a year and a half.

This particular day
was pretty slow. We were
kind of hanging out. And...

I walk in the door,
and Bill Murray
is sitting at the bar

talking with
one of my bartenders.

I kind of just stare at the TV

because I don't-- He's standing
right next to me.

And I don't know
how to like, just go: "Hey."

Because I'm a little starstruck.

And so he's like: "Who are you
rooting for in the game?"

And I know
like zero about sports.

And I was just like:
"I don't know."

I don't even know,
I'm just staring at the TV.

So we do a shot of tequila
and he puts out his hand

and he goes "I'm Bill by
the way." And I go: "I know".

More people are coming in
and they're starting
to come up to Bill,

and they're saying: "Oh, my
gosh, Bill my dog's name
is Venkman."

She's like: "Can I have a hug?
And he goes "Yeah, give Trevor
a hug, he's a handsome guy."

Joking around and, it's like:
"Can we take a picture of you?"

And he's like: "Yeah, but we're
having a conversation."

And I felt pretty special
that he was like:

"We are trying to talk here,
me and Trevor."

He goes: "Hey, I'm going
across the street

to see The GZA.
Do you wanna come?"

I'd been at work all morning
and I said "I actually have to
go and let my dogs out."

And he was like: "Oh, okay."

So later in the day
it gets busier. I'm bartending
outside on the patio.

And I get a text message
that says Bill Murray
is back looking for Trevor.

I come back to the bar
with the dogs,

and I go to the door
and the door guy is like:

"Fuck you!" And I was like
"What? What's up?"

And he goes "Bill Murray just
walked in the door and asked:
"Is Trevor here?"

And I like waved through the
crowd with my dogs.
And I tap him on the shoulder.

And he turns around
and he goes: "Trevor!"

And then
I get another text message.

Trevor is back
talking with Bill Murray.

Tyler, the owner, calls me
and he's like:

You think he wants to bartend?

And I was like:
"No, I don't want to do that."

He was like:
"Just ask him the question.
Just do it, just do it."

And I was like: "Alright."
So I go: "Hi, Bill,

-the owner wants to know like,
if you want to bartend."
-And he's like: "Really?"

And a couple of
minutes goes by and I just
get another text message

that just says:
"Bill is bartending."

[bar music]

It's like three beeps
at the bar, and everyone,
just like, is going apeshit,

like holding up money
and waving it.

And I run inside
and Bill Murray is
behind the bar, and it's chaos.

Bill just started,
well, taking orders
from all the people around.

[Jesse] You know people would
order a whiskey coke,
shot of... what-ever.

It didn't matter what they
ordered. He would literary just
grab the closest bottle to him

regardless of what--
If it's what ordered or not.

And pour them straight Tequila
in a glass straight Gin in--

whatever, he'd just--
Whatever was close,
that's what they were getting.

Nobody gave a damn.
It was awesome.

How crazy would it be if you
walked around town and
everyone loved you. Everyone.

When you're pumping your gas,
everyone loved you.

And when you were ordering
a coffee, everyone loved you.

That would be exhausting.
But he seems to have just kind
of turned that on its head.

And just gone with it, and
realized that he has the power

to make other people
have an amazing experience.

You know eventually it gets
really crazy and he and his
friends take off.

So, I snuck out the back door
with my dog to like bee-line to
meet him to the entrance.

I go up and I say:
"Hey, Bill are you leaving?"
He goes "Yeah."

And he shakes my hand
and he goes: "You're a
really interesting guy, Trevor,

it was really nice
to meet you." And I was
just like: "Oh, my gosh."

This is like
the perfect end of the story.

He just walked out
in the middle of the street

and wanders down the road.

And I don't know what happened
after that, but...

[Tommy] So, who is Bill Murray?

Oh, man.

To me
he's just like this unicorn
who I've always wanted to meet.

And it's always that one person
who you want to meet.

And in your head, you're just
like this is never gonna happen.

And this guy shows up
at your fucking door.

[party music]

My Bill Murray story I share
with a couple of my friends.

So, that night
we were having a house party.

It's kind of a tradition that we
do with our friends

at the end of South By
we'll have a couple of bands.

Jordan ran into this band
called The Like.

And he asked the girls
if they wanted to play.

Sure enough they show up.

And as I'm walking out, I see
Bill in the passenger seat.

I basically just
have a heart attack

and stop walking and I was just
[breaths in]

Oh, my God!
Oh, my fucking God!

Jordan goes-- Opens the door,
and then comes running back in.

He goes: "You're not
gonna believe it,
Bill Murray is here."

Like I run inside,
close the door

and I'm like: "Shhh..."

And I started
jumping up and down
"Bill fucking Murray is here.

Bill fucking Murray." My buddy
Adam is like: "Jordan how drunk
are you right now?

"I'm not drunk.
Not that drunk."

-But he's here!
-And sure enough Bill Murray
is walking in the front door

carrying guitar amps.

[unidentified]
Bill Murray, everybody!

And everyone
in the party just stopped.

It was almost like the movie
where like that record stops.

And he was just-- Looked around
and just, you know, did this.

He's like: "I don't know what
you guys are looking at.
Like I'm the roadie tonight."

[Adam] Bill himself did a lot
to put people at ease by just
being as normal as possible.

Like he wasn't making
a big deal about himself.

He was more concerned with
the lasagna in the oven.

[background chatting]

-[Bill] Did you do that?
-Yeah.

Please send that to me because
all my friends like, fuck that
shit, it's not true.

They start playing.

We ran out of beer.

[Fieron] Bill comes up to
Jordan and goes:
"Hey, let me put in."

And I'm like:
"Man you're good, you're good.
Like I appreciate that."

He's said: "No, Jordan,
I'm really serious.

And I said: "Bill, no, you're my
guest, come on."

He reaches into his pocket
and pulls out a soft ball
of wadded up cash.

Then Bill Murray leans over
Jordan and whispers in his ear:

"Jordan, listen, I've been
saving up for a little bit."

And I said: "Alright, fuck it."
And I was like:
"I'll let you buy me some beer."

And so I ran through the
grocery store, freaking--
I mean running.

They're about to close,
and I end up bringing
the cashier back to the house.

And it's a knock at the door.
It's the cops.

-Jordan!
-Jordan! Cops!

They--
You know, we were too loud.
They wanted us to turn it down.

And I walked out, said: "Hi,
gentlemen how are you tonight?"

[band playing]

Oh, good. You know, we
just got six calls.

We can hear you
five blocks away.
You guys are really loud.

Can you guys turn it down?
And I was like:

"Man, officers
with all due respect

I can't really
do that right now because
Bill Murray is inside my house

and he's playing in the band
that you want me to stop

from playing.
And I just can't do that.

So if you guys wanna come in
to my house and tell Bill Murray

that he can't play the
tambourine anymore. Go for it."

The two police officers,
me and Jordan--

Bill Murray
comes up with the tambourine
and plays it in their face.

[Jordan] He is there at the door
to greet them as soon as they
walk in.

He got a tambourine in his hand
shaking it vigorously
in their face.

And all he said was: "You are
Bill Murray." And he has his
tambourine in his hand

and he's shaking it,
and he said: "Yes, I am,
I am Bill Murray."

And puts his arm around him and
brings him into the party and...

We keep playing.

[Adam]
For Bill it's probably just the
spontaneity, is perhaps the fun.

If nobody expect that
you're gonna be there
then you're gonna get

an absolutely genuine
reaction to it all.

When you're in a room full
of people and everyone is
smiling, like ear to ear,

that's an amazing vibe. And
like that's-- He created that.

He's like a candle, when you
light it in a room, and all of
a sudden the room smells great.

He has become a symbol of...

I think what
everyone wants to be.

[Adam] When you're
living spontaneously, you're
gonna be able to have memories

of events happened that
you can't create yourself.

You can try
to force a special moment,

but the things that matter most
are the things
that just happened.

You know, to be able to
open yourself, to allow
any of those things to happen.

I think that's where
the kind of magic comes through.

Because like our
Bill Murray story, like it
never would have happened

had the band not said
yes to us.

Or Bill said yes to the band.
All these things that people
just kind of going with it,

led to this awesome story
and a memory we'll have forever.

He walked out of there,
you know, saying: "Thank you so
much, that was so much fun like,

thanks for having me."
I mean just kind of lets
him get back to his roots

and just enjoy people for who
they are and enjoy just life

on a simpler...
On a simpler level.

[cheering]

[people chatting]

Awesome!

[inaudible]

[crowd cheering]

Good morning.

A few years back I was contacted
by the studio releasing a film
called Rock the Casbah

that Bill was starring in. And
it was written by Mitch Glazer.
He's a very close friend.

And they had contacted me
a few weeks before Comic Con
to ask me to moderate a panel.

I was approached
with a caveat that:
"We think he'll be there."

He's Josh Horowitz.
He's OK. He's OK.

[crowd cheering]

[Joshua] All the way
up to the night before

we did not know if Bill Murray
was gonna show up.

They were getting
reports on the phone,

like: "We think he's
on his way to the airport.

Mitch says he's on the plane.
Mitch thinks he's on the plane.
We think he's on the way."

It's like
30 minutes before the panel,

finally Bill arrives.

[presenter] The very first
appearance at Comic Con

for Mr. Bill Murray.
Give it up!

[crowd cheering]

[Joshua] And we started to take
questions from the audience.

And there are
a lot of cool questions.

Questions about Ghost Busters

and all that
kind of sort of thing.

And there is one great question
that kind of like

gets to the heart of what we
love about Bill Murray.

[crowd laughing]

Oh-oh.

Hey, Bill Murray. I...

[crowd laughing]

I don't know if you ever heard,
that there's people that share
around these stories

of you doing crazy things
and acting weird,
and then turning to the person

that's is telling the story
saying: "No one
will ever believe you."

[crowd laughing]

If... A: Curious if any
of those stories have

any validity to them, and if not
like, if you have heard of them,

is there one that really is like
you heard you're like:
"Well, that's pretty crazy."

[crowd laughing]

I don't know what
he was talking about.

[crowd laughing and cheering]

It sounds like fun, though,
doesn't it?

And he's kind of winking
at the audience in a way saying:
"Yeah, but you will never know."

And that's part of
the beauty of Bill Murray.

Mitch his friend and
collaborator, chimes in.

He says: "I've kind of got like
a version of a Bill Murray story
that I can share with you guys."

[Mitch] I can attest to one.
My wife is here

who starred in Road House
with Patrick Swayze.

Kelly Lynch is here,
and I can attest to one
of those stories which is

for about-- It felt like
20 or 30 years,
but for about five or six years

any time Road Housewas on,
and I mean, it was on TNT
every 15 minutes it seemed.

So before in the morning, he
actually once called me from
Russia at a wedding to say:

"Your wife
is banging Patrick Swayze."

[crowd laughing]

And then there was a moment
where all his brothers

were calling me at weird hours
just to do the same voice.

So I can--
I mean, I'm about the
"You'll never believe it",

but Kelly
and I were haunted by...

[crowd laughing]

...by the Ghost Buster.

[crowd applauding]

Like everybody else I think I'd
sort of like just been enjoying
the Bill Murray stories

as entertainment. They can pop
up on your computer, in the news
and like you know, sort of like

Bill crashed a party, Bill stole
a golf-car, Bill wrestled
somebody into a sand trap.

But after a while
like he's not just being wacky.

The more I looked at it,
the more I realized
Bill is by action,

not by word, teaching
us all how to live.

-Did you get anything?
-I got a video of it.

-[woman] NO.
-[man] Let me see.

And I think this message is
particularly important now.

We're so stuck on our phones.
We're do so much just out of
habit, right, and routine.

We really are not fully engaged
with our lives right now.

I think Bill Murray teaches us
a few things.

And one is just, sort of,
not live life on auto pilot.

[David] Bill Murray is reminding
us to do that.

To get fully engaged, to wake up
to what's going on.

It doesn't have to be that
you have to do, like silly
things or pranks or anything.

It's about being mindful and
being aware of what's happening.

It's been said before
but it's true, I think
Bill embraces the moment.

These chronical Bill Murray
stories work because

it's somebody that we revere,
we put on a pedestal

who... Seemingly all he wants
it's just like, kind of like:

"Have a good time,
enjoy the moment."

There is always excitement
for someone when they see
a celebrity in real life,

but I think to see
a celebrity like not being
sort of self-aware

and not being stand-offish

really participating and
like being a regular person,

I think all of these things
contributes to that
sort of singular awesomeness

that is a Bill Murray sighting.

[Joshua] He connects on a very
human, personal level.

Just enjoy that party,
karaoke, play kickball.

Just do what makes you happy
and connect with a stranger.

And I think there is something
really beautiful in that.

[Tommy] A lot of people
have their theories
on these Bill Murray stories.

And I was learning a lot
from my own journey.

But some part of me
still wanted to get
answers from Bill himself.

I am making my second attempt...

to call Bill Murray.

[beep]

Hello, Bill.

[beep]
Hey, Bill. Hey, Bill!

Hello, Bill.
How are you?

I feel I can say that better.

Hey, Bill.
That sounds better, right?

Hey! Hey, Bill.

How are you?
I'm not good at this.

Hi, Bill, my name is Lynn.
I'm Tommy Avallone's mother.

He's the best guy in the world.

[answering machine] For
message press pound. For
additional options

enter 8002, message sent.
Thank you for calling.

-[Tommy] Hi, man.
-[John] What's up?

How are you?

Just tell me when the audio
is clear, man. I'll go...

[indistinct talking]
[laughing]

I almost got you. I think it was
right by my eye, dude.

My name is John Barnhardt and I
did the walking in slow motion
video with Bill Murray.

[music]

So, my buddy and I,
David Smith were shooting
a low budget horror movie

and one of my commercial
clients called me and said:
"Listen, Trident Academy

this school want's a commercial.
They can't pay anything." I was
like whatever, I don't know.

And they were like:
"Bill Murray is gonna be in it."
And I'm like: "Done deal."

We had a script. He's like:
"I'm not doing this is...
What do you think of me just

telling a story of these
bears. These stuffed animals."

Like dude, that's brilliant.

Bill warms up to us
and we're all kind of
done with the commercial.

It was fun and then we're
eating, and I'm like: "Yo,
Bill we've got a favor to ask.

He goes:
"You want an autograph?"

And I'm like: "No, no,
I don't want an autograph.

But would it be cool if we all
walk down the hallway

and my buddy photographed
it in slow motion?"

We cut a bunch of Wes Anderson
credits around, and put some
music behind kind of

like Kinks Or David Bowie.
And he was like:
"Absolutely, let's do this."

[music]

Then he's like:
"But only one thing,

the camera guy has to
go around the corner and
we have to come out and reveal,

and you can't look at me.

You gotta look straight ahead."

Right after we walked
out in slow motion,

he shakes all of our hands

and then he goes:
"Good session."

To everybody.
"Good session, good session."

And then he just left.
That was it.

You know
he's such a big famous person,

but he still kind of finds
the time to you know
maybe think about people.

I think he recognizes that he's
so big that

that one little moment
makes your year, makes your day.

And it's like
ten seconds to him.

[Tommy] While we were in South Carolina talking to John,

Bills off yet again making a new Bill Murray story,

all the way in Slovenia.

♪ Take me out to Slovenia

♪ Take me up with Triglav

♪ Buy me some
strudel and potica ♪

♪ I don't care if
I never go back ♪

I write this column for CNN
about wisdom. In writing about
the wisdom of pop culture

and the reason that I focused on
Bill Murray is because, if you
look at Bill Murray's career,

you see at a certain number of
key films in which there is a
similar narrative, this message.

It's in the hole!

A lot of people are very
familiar with Caddyshack.

It's one of his most famous
films, and he tells this
great story, totally improv

a line about how he wants
to caddy for the Dalai Lama.

Are you gonna stiff me?
And I said "Hey, Lama!

Hey! How about a little
something, you know,
for the effort, you know.

And he says
"Oh, it won't be any money,

but when you die,
on your death bed,

you will receive
total consciousness."

He didn't necessarily
put that into Caddyshack.

He just--
He threw enlightenment

in the middle of
a movie about golf.

-I'm a God.
-You're God?

I am aGod.
I'm not theGod.

You can look at that story
and it clearly seems
to be about this notion

of make mistakes and
do things over and over again

until you get it right
so that you can move on.

And moving on, being nirvana.

Today is tomorrow.

It happened.

Just this great lesson
on how to live.

while also being super
entertaining and very funny.

I believe in it now!
I believe it's gonna happen
to me now! I'm ready for it!

Scrooged,right, which you know
even in the original
Dickens story's

basically is about redemption,
you know, in a similar way.

[voice over in film] Bill Murray in the story of one man in the search for himself.

[David] That is the story of a
guy who goes off to World War I
and becomes a voluntary

ambulance driver,
sees death and destruction,

and then comes back, and he
has this pre-assigned life.

Like he has got a job waiting
for him. He's got a fiancé,

and he rejects all that and
says: "That's not
what I want to do.

I have more questions
than I have answers."

And so he goes on this search
for enlightenment.

Am I ever gonna see you again?

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

There is just this theme that
keeps reoccurring

in Bill Murray films
that seems to be
about something much deeper.

Sure they're terrific athletes.
They've got the best equipment
that money can buy.

Hell, every team
they're sending over here
has their own personal masseuse.

Not masseur, masseuse.
But it doesn't matter!

So you see "It just doesn't
matter". That's the big
speech in Meatballs.

The end of the Razor's Edge
Like it just doesn't matter.

[all] Even and even if we win!

Hah! Even if we win!

Even if we play so far over our
heads that our noses bleed
for a week to ten days.

Even if God in heaven above
comes down and points his hand
at our side of the field

it just wouldn't matter
because all
of the really good looking girls

would still go out with
the guys from Mohawk because
they've got all the money!

There is a really
great all Daoist story
that sort of speaks to this.

So, the story goes like this:
There is an old man
who has this priced horse

and one day
the horse runs away.

And his neighbor comes over
to give his condolences.

He says: "I'm so sorry.
I heard about your horse."

And the old man says:
"Who knows what's good or bad?"

And the neighbor
is confused because
this is his priced horse.

And so the neighbor leaves
and then the next day
the horse returns

and he brings with him
12 feral horses.
Now the guy is rich in horses.

And the neighbor comes over
and says: "Congratulations,
you have all these horses."

And the old man says:
"Who knows what's good or bad?"

And the neighbor is confused
again. Because clearly he's,
you know, this is great.

But then the next day
the old man's son is
taming one of the horses

and is thrown and he breaks his
leg. The neighbor comes over:
"I'm so sorry about your son."

The old man says again:
"Who knows what's good or bad?"
And then the next day

the army comes through
and they're conscripting
able-bodied young men

to go fight off in war.
And his son is spared.

And that story can go on
and on and on. But what the
point of that story is the...

It just doesn't matter, right?
Like most of us
go through life up and down.

Things are great!
Things are terrible, things are
great, things are terrible.

But a deeper way
of looking at it, is that things
are always kind of up and down.

Good things can lead to bad
things, bad things can
lead to good things.

And if you have this
"It just doesn't matter"...

If you just have this sort of
more Zen, if you will,
outlook on it.

You can sort of look
at the big picture of it.

You're gonna--
Your whole life is just gonna be

more even keel, you know.

It just doesn't matter
if we win or we lose!

It just doesn't matter!
It just doesn't matter!

It just doesn't matter!
It just doesn't matter!
It just doesn't matter!

It just doesn't matter!
It just doesn't matter!
It just doesn't matter!

I was out with a bunch
of friends after work
doing some karaoke,

something that we regularly did.
We were out in a private room
and just having a great time.

My friend comes back to the room
and he goes:
"Bill Murray just walked in."

And we were just like:
"Whatever, dude. You're a liar."

And this was around the time
where kind of like
the legend had started

where you hear these stories
where Bill Murray did my dishes

or Bill Murray crashed my party.

So my friend
didn't even hesitate.

He went right up to him
and said: "you know what?
We've got a room in the back

if you want to come
and hang out with us,
just come and check it out.

And about 20 minutes later
we got a knock on the door.
And it's Bill.

We just kind of welcomed him in.
And then we just like:
"Come on in, take a seat,

chill out." Do you want a drink?
What song do you want to sing,
you know?

But I just put on one
of my favorite Elvis songs
and he got right in there.

He grabbed the mike
and him and I just did a duet.
And it was really just

like hanging out with one
of your buddies. By the time
we knew it, it was like 3 a.m.

and it was time to go and
I'm like: "How do I leave this?"

Eventually I left and I went
home and I put my pictures
right on up on Facebook.

Because I didn't
believe it myself, honestly.

And then the next day I went
to work and people were like:
"What the fuck, is that real?"

Like "That's not real, right?
That didn't happen, right?"

And the people who didn't come,
they were really upset.

Yeah, I got invited
to karaoke that night.

Missed out on meeting Bill.

It sucks.

[Michael] I think meeting Bill
has kind of opened me up in a
strange way.

I could be kind of a quieter
guy, a little more reserved.

But then I'll think
what would Bill Murray
be doing in this situation?

And he would just take it
by the balls and just go for it.

Sometimes if I'm feeling
a little socially awkward...

I just think just have fun and
everything will go with it.

You know, and...
He just showed up and had a good
time. And it was great.

[Lee] Poet's House is a library,
a meeting place

and it has become one of
the great places
on the globe for poetry.

The place is packed every day,
but when we were building it,
it was really hard.

We 're poets. We didn't
really know what we were doing,

and every once in a while
I get called up
by a construction worker:

"Oh, like we're missing
an Air Conditioner."
Or you know it was just--

It was a big job
for the poets to do this.

And I thought
it would really make sense
for the construction workers

to have a sense of
what they were building.
So we asked him.

[Bill sighs]

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -

[Scott] Nobody knew
that he was coming.
As soon as he walked in

everybody was like: "Holy shit,
that's Bill Murray.

What's Bill Murray doing here?
It made no sense to us at all

for Bill Murray to be
on the construction site.

More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Of Chambers as the Cedars -
Impregnable of eye -

Yeah, for the most part a lot of
it is you don't have a clue what
they're talking about.

And I wish I did,
but I never really got into it

that much where
I could understand it fully.

And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky -

Of Visitors - the fairest -
For Occupation -

It was probably the first time
we had somebody,

probably since high school
English class, read us poetry.

And it just happened
to be Bill Murray.

This -
The spreading wide

my narrow Hands
To gather

Paradise -

He was showing up to read
poetry, but it was fun.

There's a difference
between fun and funny
I think in some ways.

He creates a sense of fun.
And that creates a community
in the present moment.

Why don't you just come over
here and introduce yourself?

And tell the camera what's your
name is and what's-- [Laughter]

Tell them what your name is
and what your occupation is.
[laughter]

You don't think it's-- Michael,
I think it's a good thing to do.

And he really helped them,
I think, understand
what they were building.

And that poetry
is all around us.
Then he made a lot of jokes too.

Now we have
an opportunity for one of you

to step forward and do some of
your own original poetry.

Come on, don't be shy.
Come on, don't be shy.

He's just this big goofy guy
that just attracts people to
him. For whatever reason.

And it was
a pretty cool experience.

[Robert] I think as time went on
people understood that

he was there to relate to us
and to be with us

and shed a little joy
in our lives.

Poetry in a way is about the
radiant particulars.

It's the little moments
that are charged with
meaning and radiance.

And he goes after those moments.
So that makes him
a poetic spirit, I think.

We've got about
three more minutes
before this break is over.

Smoke'em if you got'em.
Alright, thank you.

[clapping]

[woman]
I heard somebody yell: "Did
your child just pick him up?"

[woman] It's Bill Murray.
You are kidding me!

-[woman 2] I'm starstruck.
-We were playing kickball.
It was my turn to kick

and the ref goes: "Do you
all mind if my friend plays?"

And I look over and I'm
like: "It's my turn,"
like I don't want this

random, like homeless looking
man to play when it's my turn.

And then I was like: "Hey, hey,
hey. That's Bill Murray!" I was
like: "Sure, you can play."

We all took photos
and then my mom is like:

"Excuse me, do you mind
if you take a photo with me?"

I think it was him,
he scooped her up.

-She wasn't like: "Hold me."
-No, no it was definitely him.

I honestly didn't get the grasp
of it until the day after.

Because I didn't know, like--
apparently this was a thing
I didn't know about.

And then all of a sudden
I see all these clips...

I had no idea
he popped-up places.

He does it all the time
apparently, and I didn't know.

Yeah, it was like very bizarre.
Like he came in, we'd played for
a little bit,

took a photo and
then he left.

And then we kept on playing
the game like regular

and then afterwards we're like:
"What just happened?"

Anybody need more coffee?

Coffee and Cigarettes
the movie by Jim Jarmusch
came out in 2003.

At the time people loved Bill
Murray. But they didn't have
the sense that he was the guy

who sort of like went out in the
world and covered peoples' eyes
and stole their French Fries.

-Are you Bill Murray?
-Yeah, I'm Bill Murray.

But let's keep that
just between us, alright.

It's kind of like the first
little peephole into
like the idea that

"Oh, Bill Murray can just sort
of like arrive in your life
for a few minutes."

But here he is and he shows
up as a waiter, like with two
members of the WU-Tang Clan.

Bill Groundhog Day,
Ghost busting ass Murray.

-Who do you gonna call?
-I know that,
just don't tell anybody.

And in the movie it's really
kind of the fictional version

of what people later
found out was like
the real life Bill Murray.

What do you mean "not tell
nobody, Bill Murray?"

I mean, people gonna come here
and they gonna see you.

You're bill Murray,
it's obvious.

Unless you're wearing
a disguise or something.

Well, I am wearing
a kind of disguise.

Yeah, and Zombielandis
another wonderful like
cameo Bill Murray as himself.

Bill Murray, you're a zombie?

You know like you've got
a world that's like
over-run by zombies.

That you know, sort of,
like very few, you know,
like uninfected humans beings.

And Bill like somehow survived.

And what he does is
that he dresses up as a zombie

so he can like go
and play golf and walk around.

And you know like even in the
zombie apocalypse, like sort of,
like Bill Murray is trying

to maintain his lifestyle
and like get out of the house
and engage.

Suits my life style, you know.
I like to get out and do stuff.

Just play nine holes on the
Riviera. Just walked on.

Goddamn it, Bill fucking Murray!
I had to get that out.

I think Bill has always like
had adventures, inserted himself
into other people's lives.

I think the extent which he does
it, is probably more based on
what he needs personally.

But I think it resonates with
everybody more now
because of who we are.

-Bill motherfucking Murray.
-It's crazy, ya'll.

-[Tommy] You've met Bill?
-I've met Bill.

-Tell me how that went.
-Bill...

[Gavin] Are there times, you know, like periods of your life where you feel like you

need to be woken up?
Or is it just...

[Bill] Well, every day.
Really, I mean

you know, I'm
always sort of connected for

seconds and minutes
a day sometimes.

Sometimes you go days
without it, which is--
I'm always thinking:

"Holy God, I've been asleep for two days. I've been doing
things, but [indistinct]

So, one of the things Bill
tries to do is to really

just like have a jolt
that wakes people up.

[Bill] He don't know always
that-- aware that
I'm thinking about what

I want them to take away from
it. You know sometimes I think

what am I gonna
take away from this?

So, I'm almost self-destructive. My hope is that it's gonna wake me up, you know.

And if I see someone that's out, cold and on their feet sort of

I go oh, OK. I'm gonna try
and wake that person up.

Because it's like, you know,
It's the same thing.

It's like this is what I want someone to do for me, you know.

Is wake me up.
Just wake me the hell up.

[guitar music]

[Laura] I called him over,
and when my son saw him

and his bright orange outfit
and just immediately

after being silent for the
entire day
started bawling his eyes out.

And Bill Murray is like:
"Hey, if you can't beat them,

join them."
And just started crying himself.

[Samuel] This one Sunday
I went up the mountain

and this guy was
on the side of the road,
and he'd broke down.

Are you OK?
Really?

I'm walking up and it turns out
to be Bill Murray.

-[Bill] I'm Bill, by the way.
-I'm Sam. Sam.

[Noah] I'm going to pick up my
grandmother. She'd never been
to a basket-ball game.

And all of a sudden I hear a
voice. And I'm like "I know
that voice."

And I turned the corner
and sure enough
it's Bill Murray.

I stuck out my hand, I was like:
"Hey, It's my grandmothers
birthday. Do you think

we could just
get a quick picture with you?"

He just, kind of,
just looked at me and he goes:

"Well, don't you think we should
sing her Happy Birthday?"

And I was just like: "What?"

♪ Happy Birthday to you

In my head thinking like
it's Bill Murray over there

about to sing Happy Birthday
to my 94 year old grandmother.

♪ Happy Birthday to you

[instrumental music]

I had just
opened our business.
We're about three months old.

And I'd heard
that Bill is shooting
a movie in our neighborhood.

Two - three hours later
Bill comes out of his car,

sees the truck and he's like:
"So, what have you got?"

And I showed him like--
Yeah, this is my truck.

And he's like: "This is pretty
cool, it's really nice."

And then the entire crew came
over and then he helped me, he
helped serve the crew ice cream.

Bill Murray was standing
next to me on the truck.

I know he's just a person,

but to me he was more than that.

[Tommy] As more and more stories
proved to be true,

it was hard to think that
any of them could be made up.

But there was this one story
that sounded so random,
I couldn't seem to buy it.

And the only way to find out
if it was true,

was to fly over 3000 miles
to the United Kingdom.

[indistinct]

-Max.
-Good to meet you.

[Tommy] Tell us your Bill Murray story.

So, I went to university at
a place called St. Andrews.
It's a small town in Scotland.

There was one street that was
famous for its house parties.
It's called Hope street.

We just left the pub. The pubs
in England close quite early.

So we wandered along,
just walked in this door.
It was some people that we knew.

So I thought, oh, we'll go there
and see if there's
anything going on.

There was a house party, and so,
you know, we just joined in.

And all of a sudden
there is a bit of a noise
in the next room.

And so, I wandered through to
the kitchen and lo and behold

I stood there with my beer
in my hand
looking across the kitchen

and Bill Murray is in the other
room talking to a few girls.

I'm observing from the, sort of
across the room and all of
a sudden Bill start admonishing

the girls and saying what
a disgrace their kitchen was,
how messy it was, and he says:

"Don't worry about it, girls.
You go back to your party,
I'll do the washing up."

He starts doing the glasses, the
dishes. I just stood there on
the other side of the kitchen

thinking: "That's a bit strange.
Bill Murray's here
doing the washing up."

Yeah, he hung around for a
while, had a couple of drinks

and then made his way
into the night.

I mean, I think
we revere celebrity,
and I think the stories

that involve Bill Murray are
Bill interacting
in an everyday manner.

And it removes that barrier,
that Chinese Wall between
the rest of us and celebrity.

And I think that's the effect
he has on people. If that
means you go away feeling good

about yourself,
then that's a quite nice thing.

[Tommy] So it turns out
the story was true.
And the great thing about it,

is that it shows that Bill
can take these small moments
and transform them

into something memorable.
He seems to just have this
comedian type quality

when it comes to
social situations.
He comes into peoples' lives,

gets a feel for the room
and he makes the moment
something special.

But where does he get that from?

[guitar music]

God evening, hello
to you that are not my
relatives, I'm Bill Murray.

Welcome to the
Second CityTheatre.

Where have you been?
You've been gone for six months!

After school there was a party.

[audience laughing]

Then everybody went to Denver.

[audience laughing]

Almighty, I think it's great
the adults get together

and talk about sex. They should!
A certain amount of oral sex
is necessary in any community.

Improv is--
It's about being in the moment.
It's about a give and take.

It's about never denying.
The whole theory behind improv,
is "Yes, and..."

So, there's little rules like,
you know, let's say yes to each
other's ideas instead of no.

So, if I say you're my dad,
let's just pretend you are,
so I don't look like an idiot.

Somebody says: "You're a tree."
You don't say: "No, I'm not a
tree. How could I be a tree?"

You go with it. You are a tree.
And it continues on from there.

[indistinct]

Let's keep that sense of:
This is a real moment happening
in real time.

[Joel] Del Close Was the
teacher, the mentor and guru

to some of the greatest
comedy minds of our generation.

And he was a man who taught you
not to fear anything,

to enjoy that fear,
and to follow that fear.

Talking about birth control
devices and contraceptives,

next thing you know is gonna be
passing out condominiums to the
kids at school!

Handing it out in playgrounds!
I've seen those hands!

Well, I think Del had that
effect on Bill in the fact that
Bill didn't fear much.

Sometimes he'd like to see where
that fear is headed.

And it takes him
a lot of interesting places.

It ends up being other peoples'
stories, but... Yeah, no I'll go
see what's behind that door.

Like I remember Harold Ramis
told a story, you know,

if he'd go somewhere
on location with Bill...

Bill was just fine getting lost.
He could, like, go off
on a bike or a moped.

He just reveled
in not knowing where he was
and getting to know the locals.

Flying by the seat of his pants
and living by his wits.

And I think a lot of it came out
of improv and he learned
that at Second City.

[Charna] I think for
Bill Murray in particular,

he went along with the
philosophy of "Improv is play".

When Bill does those scenes,
like, he'll sit down
and take a French Fry

or play with somebody
that he doesn't know.

And I have seen him
do that personally.

It's because he really has
just taken this and made it

the joy of life. And I think
he realizes what is important.

And that is to
have fun with people.

[Susan] So when you talk about
something like Bill Murray,

you know, how does he
enjoy the moment?

How does he assume prominence
in life and bla, bla, bla?

Well, you can just-- when you
see any human being

simply reveling
in where they are,

improv might be the
only time in my life

that I truly get to slow down
and enjoy exactly where I am.

From Queens, New York,
it's the Bill Murray show!

Starring Mark Malkoff.

It is the show that doesn't end until Bill Murray agrees

to have dinner with me here
in my apartment in Queens.

The Bill Murray show was a
comedy idea I had which was at
the time a weekly video series.

You at home can help me. Have
you seen Bill Murray lately?
Do you know Bill Murray?

Is your name Bill Murray?

My wife Christine
would cook a meal

for Bill Murray that we
placed on the table.

Christine, thank you so much.
Tell us about Bill Murray's
dinner this week.

[Christine] With black bean
tacos.

And we would talk
about Murray and I think
I called a 800-number

and asked him
if he would have dinner.

He never--
I never heard from him

like most people that call
that 800-number.

I never heard back.

Tell us
how you know Bill Murray.

I don't really know him,
but I used to park his car.

I've learned a lot
and thinking back
about the approach that I took,

and it was not
the right approach
to take to make it happen...

Calling that 800-number was
not-- It goes against everything
that Murray stands for.

It goes against what Murray is.
What Murrays life is
essentially is an improv game

which he yes,
adds things in the moment.

And for me calling him
with a game and setting it up,

was just not in the moment.
It was not organic.

Because it seems like so much
of his life is-- It's in the
moment. "Yes, and..." and stuff.

It seems like whenever
there's details and specifics
and stuff...

When people call
that 800-number,
that's when it gets tricky.

And Sofia Coppola,
didn't it take her months

on the 800-number?
And that's Sofia Coppola!

I got-- I left messages
for probably a year
and sent letters.

And I would--
Anybody I would meet like:
"Do you know Bill Murray?"

And then finally I--
A friend of mine was,
who is a writer,

I was old friends with him.
He helped me and finally
got in touch with him,

and then finally
I got to meet him. And he said
he might think about doing it.

But he was never very committal
and... But I just went
to Japan and started making it

in the hopes that he would show
up. And luckily he showed up.

[crowd cheering]

So, I was at the Toronto
Film Festival
as a writer for Vanity Fair.

And I had this article
that I was reporting on.

My editor had emailed
me and she said:

"I just found out
that the Toronto
International Film Festival

is devoting one day
to Bill Murray,
called Bill Murray Day."

And we would love it
if you would fly up to Toronto
and just shadow him for the day.

What I didn't know of course
is that he has no PR people,
he has no people.

So there was really
no way to, like, coordinate
with him on this.

It was very much like I--
Just boots on the ground,
I had to search for him, thing.

-First of all,
happy Bill Murray day.
-Thank you very much.

I knew that there
were certain things
that I had to hit that day.

There was gonna be a screening
of Ghostbusters.

And, you know,
I'm kind of scribbling
notes as it's happening.

He just, kind of, walked right
off the stage, so I didn't
really get a chance to grab him.

And then I had a screening
of his movie that night
with an after party.

Again a possibility
for me to talk with him.

I'm still so emotional
from the film.

[crowd laughing]

I had been assured many times
from my editors

and everybody else
that I was on this list.

And I apparently wasn't
on this list,

and nobody would let me in.

I'd heard all day long
these rumors of--

Like I'm at the coffee shop
and someone is like:

"Bill Murray rode by
in a bike earlier."

And I'm like:

"I missed him!"

It was
these constant near misses.

You know,
by the end of that day,

I'm sitting at this bar drinking
whiskey, and I'm just like:

"I think I've been
chasing a ghost, man!"

Like, I think I 've been
focusing too much
on the wrong thing.

I haven't been focusing on
the fact that this day
was just filled with people

celebrating the spirit
of a person who, kind of, like,
marches to his own beat.

And makes everybody around him
happy, and just kind of, like,
creates joy everywhere he goes.

I think I started realizing,
like, I was trying
to put together

this very, like,
proper reported article.

But, like, reporting on Bill
Murray is like jazz, right?

Like it's just, sort
of improvisational.

I was just chasing
something that was not

at all authentic.
It's not Who Bill Murray is.

Once I realized that,
I kind of let go a little,

and it made more sense to me.

[Tommy] Just as I started to give up on the idea of actually speaking with Bill,

an opportunity revealed itself.

It was the opening night
of the Charleston RiverDogs.

That's the baseball team that
Bill is part owner of.

And I got myself a ticket.

[country guitar music]

[Tommy]
That's Bill on the right.

And this time
I'm the guy on the left

about to talk to Bill.

These Bill Murray stories
referred to in a way as:

"Did you hear about this crazy
thing that Bill Murray did?"

And maybe for a lot of people
that's really all it is.

It's like: "Bill Murray did
another crazy thing
and you can watch it."

The real gift is for the people
that he is interacting with.
And it becomes their story.

[Peter] Part of Bills charm when
he shows up,
is not to take over.

Like when he shows up to
somebody's house and does his
kind of thing, it's like

he wants to be in the house
and be part of the gang.
That's the joke.

He's not there doing
a tap dance or juggling.

He's just sitting there
watching TV with them.
And yet it's Bill Murray.

And that's part of it.
It's like, it's not
showing up to entertain.

It's showing up to be present.

And I forget about it
because, like, life happens.

And every once in a while
someone brings up
that Bill Murray story.

And you just, like, smile.

Nine years later or
seven years later

I'm still
wrapping my head around it.

I think that's the gift that
he's giving these people that--
in the Bill Murray story.

I think that's what he's
giving them. He's giving them
agency to have a way to wake up.

Yeah, it was a really
great feeling, yeah.

Made me feel
like a bigger person than I am.

I don't feel like
I'm a part of that story.

I feel like he's a part
of my story at this point.

It's like such a great moment.
I'm really like--

It does. It makes me happy
thinking about it.

But I like to think that
he's giving them something
that they will, you know,

use for the rest of their life.

That it's more than just,
you know:
"I met Bill Murray once."

My absolute favorite Bill Murray
story is the saxophone
and the taxi cab.

Bill is in San Francisco.
He's got a long cab ride
ahead of him.

And so he starts
talking to the guy, because
he's like an engaging guy.

You know, when you come into
a funny situation like getting
into a taxi with the guy

who is a saxophone player, I
said: "When do you practice it?"

"I don't know I drive
like 14 hours a day
or something like that."

"Where is your sax?"
He says it's in the trunk.

I was like, you know, that's two
and two makes four. Pull over
and get in the trunk and I--

I know how to drive a car.
You know, not only did he play
all the way to Sausalito,

which is a long ways. We stopped
and got barbeque and he was
playing like at some kind of,

you know, what people would call
like a sketchy rib place

in Oakland like
2:15 in the morning.

And it's like:
"Relax, man, you got the horn.
We're cool here." You know.

And it was great. It was made
for a beautiful night.
And you know we...

We've done that.
And I think we all do that.
You know I think that anyone--

If you saw that moment, you'd
say like there's-- And
you're, as they say, available.

You know. You'd see it.
You'd make the connection.
You'd do it right.

It's not just "Bill Murray was
in a cab and, like sort of, did
this quick thing for me."

Like he would remember the guy
who had him play in the back
seat so he could drive.

Which I think is like... The
best Bill Murray stories are not
about, you know sort of,

trading off like the value
of the celebrity.
But like he did

something that just, sort of
like, he transforms the moment.

[spiritual music]

[Tommy] Here is the thing. I did walk up to Bill. He was rushing to get to the field.

And there wasn't
any time to talk.

I met all these people
who've had these great
experiences with Bill.

But as I sat so close to
the man, I felt something
wasn't quite right. Why?

In 1977 Bill Murray snuck into Elvis Presley's funeral. He was a fan and wanted to be there.

Bill went to the funeral to be a part of the experience.

I was trying
to control the experience.

[excited crowd]

[Tommy] At the end of the game.
I just decided to jump in line
and ask for a photo.

-Excuse me, may I take
a picture with you?
-Sure.

This is why my picture with
Bill is so important.

Because this is when I realized' I didn't need to talk to Bill

to understand why
he does what he does.

After meeting all these people, I learned that these
Bill Murry stories

are not cherished because they
meet a celebrity.

It's because they had a real interaction with a real person.

A man who lives freely
and takes the time
to make each moment count.

It's not forced,
it's not planned. It's just living in the moment.

So maybe my interaction with Bill wasn't perfect. But in the end, it just doesn't matter.

It just doesn't matter.

[music]

It was the middle of
May of 2011.

I was working on a movie called
"Moonrise Kingdom" in Newport,
Rhode Island

with some Hollywood movie stars:

Edward Norton, Bruce Willis,
Harvey Keitel, and Bill Murray.

Bill Murray was the one person

who could always get me to walk
into a movie theater no matter
what it was.

For 4 days I worked on this film
and for 4 days I did my work and
he did his.

And we came back to the same
hotel every night and we never
crossed paths.

I went home from work that last
day and I'm just about ready to
throw in the towel.

I guess it was a near miss

Disappointing, but there are
greater tragedies in life

I walk into the bar in the hotel
lobby and I ordered a drink.

There's a bartender, and
there's a piano there.

So I asked her :"would you mind
if I played around on the piano
a little bit?"

and she said : "Sure, there's
nobody here, why not?"

So I sit down at the piano and I
just start to play

about 10 seconds later into
the room walks Bill Murray.

I didn't stop playing.

It's the music that brought
him in, the music was gonna
keep him there.

He didn't even say anything.

He just walked over, stood right
behind me, and said,

"Can you play this?"
"Can you play that?"

Myself and Bill Murray were
playing music, singing, drinking
with 2 women, song after song.

I'm playin' 'em, the girls
are dancing, the bartender
joined in,

the concierge joined in,

and we're havin' a party in this
tiny little Newport Rhode Island
hotel bar.

And before we know it, 5 hours
had gone by and he had to leave.

And he gets up,

and I had mentioned to him that

I worked at a summer camp as a
head counselor just like he did
in "Meatballs".

I still do to this day.

And he reaches into his
pocket and he pulls out a
sweaty wad of money

and he hands it to me
and he says:

"Listen. if the counselors have
a tough day, do me a favor.

Take 'em out for some pizza,
tell 'em that Bill loves 'em."

And then he said one more thing
before he left. He said:

"I don't remember names, but I'm
very good with faces.

If you ever see me, anywhere,
whatever I'm doing, no matter
where it is,

please come say hello."

And he disappeared down
the hall.

And that was it.

When I hear stories of
party crashing,

stories of Bill going
to a wedding,

showing up somewhere, doing
something fun and making
people's lives magical,

I always smile.

I'd like people to know that
Bill Murray is who you want him
to be in real life.

You can't say that about many of
the people we admire.

But he is what makes people
love him.

[music stops]