Quotes by Ivan Reitman - Page 1

I love horror and sci-fi.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Horror
Sci Fi
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I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.
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Fiction
Science Fiction
Enthusiast
Science Always Science Fiction
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In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.
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Comedy
Helping
Enhance
Helps
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We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Animal
House
Reviews
Animal House
Devastating
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Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.
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Comedy
Wells
Comedies
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Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.
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Different
Dvds
Theater
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I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
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Comedy
Parody
Style
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I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.
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Believe
Tools
Writing
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Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.
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Comedy
Doors
May
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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Acting
Important
Persons
Dealing
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
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Humor
Born
Sense Of Humor
Thinking
Worse
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My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Movie
Careers
Directors
Okay
Thinking
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I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
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Dave
Fiction
Juniors
Science Fiction
Thinking
Twins
Junior
Premise
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The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Home
Different
Rooms
Excursion
Extra
Slightly
Viewing
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I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
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Able
Fans
Fiction
Particular
Science Fiction
Fan
Films
Science Science Fiction Always
Spin
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I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
People
Sex
Thinking
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We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.
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Caught
Drama
Watches
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The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
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Directors
People
Real
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My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
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Animal
Borrowed
Couple
House
Orientation
Animal House
Student
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Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
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Movie
Achieve
Delicate
Kind
Stitching
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Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
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Girl
Cannibal
Elements
Firsts
Goofy
Horror
Spoof
Horror Movie
Sounds
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I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Actors
Bills
Dramatic
People
Work Great People
Work Great Always
Bill
Bill Murray
Dramatic Work
Primarily
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When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Bill
Bill Murray
Perform
Talented
Draft
Final Draft
Harold
Performer
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Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.
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Comedy
Strings Attached
Way
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I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.
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One Step At A Time
Outlandish
Reality
Steps
Theory
Time Reality Your
Domino
Relatively
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It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.
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Opportunity
Able
Cgi
Years
Seriously
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I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.
Ivan Reitman / Film Producer
Juicy
Stripes
Today
Effective
Frankly
Surprised
Vibrant
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Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it’s texting or emailing or Facebooking, there’s a kind of distance between the participants.
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Distance
People
Texting
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I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.
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Couple
Thinking
Would Be
Couple Times
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I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.
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Animal
House
Remember When
Stripes
Animal House
Imitative
Loose
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I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.
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Character
Emulate
Film
Warmth
Way
Believed
Hang
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I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.
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Agree
Film
Gross
Thesis
Thinking
Way
Accept
Broader
Screen
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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
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Humor
Appropriate
Honest
Long
Real
Funny Good Humor
Cast
Effective
Funny Movie
Good Actor
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Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
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Awards
Children
Critical
Dramatic
Dumb
Honor
Years
Award
Basis
Dramatic Work
Weekly
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The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.
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Actors
Directors
Lines
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I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I was going to be a composer, long ago when I first started. So it was amazingly fun to do those two routines in the film.
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Fun
Long Ago
Two
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In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.
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Explicit
Internet
Radio
Schizophrenia
Talk Radio
Private
Remarkably
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I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say whatever they want, whatever pops into their head. It's an opportunity to write the last draft of the screenplay as you're working on it.
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Opportunity
Believe
Writing
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I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. It's not that they all get along, or that there aren't bad people or people we make fun of. But at the core, there's a kind of sweetness.
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Character
Fun
People
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When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.
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Creative
Stars
Successful
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There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.
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Media
Real
Thinking
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It seemed like so much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. I think it's sort of shifted the energy of that first romantic meeting, where it's quicker, perhaps more desperate, more energetic, in a whole different way, and it's resulted in a situation where people seem to be sometimes more comfortable having a sexual relationship than an emotional one.
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Distance
Emotional
Thinking
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