Ivan Reitman Quotes:

Life: b. October 27, 1946

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I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

quote we watch movies about all sorts of things that we don t know anything about but we do ivan reitman Quotes

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.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Directors, Actors, Lines

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.

Topics: No Strings Attached, Way, Comedy, Strings Attached

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.

source: - "Ivan Reitman Talks DRAFT DAY Blu-ray/DVD, Working with Kevin Costner, Negative Effects of DVD Extras, GHOSTBUSTERS 3 and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 1, 2014.

Topics: Drama, Watches, Caught, Watch Movie

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

Topics: Thinking, Fiction, Juniors

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Topics: Fiction, Science Fiction

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Topics: Fans, Fiction, Able

I love horror and sci-fi.

Topics: Horror, Sci Fi

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

Topics: Helping, Comedy

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Topics: Important, Acting, Persons

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

Topics: Home, Different, Rooms, Excursions

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

source: - Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

Topics: Comedy, Wells

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.

source: - Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

Topics: Character, Way, Film

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.

Topics: Opportunity, Years, Able, Cgi

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

Topics: Doors, May, Comedy

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

Topics: Dvds, Different, Theater

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Topics: Movie, Thinking, Careers

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.

Topics: Movie, Kind, Achieve

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

Topics: Style, Comedy, Parody

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.

Topics: Reality, Steps, One Step At A Time, Outlandish

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.

Topics: Children, Awards, Years

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.

Topics: Stripes, Juicy, Today

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.

Topics: People, Actors, Bills

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

Topics: Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Born

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.

Topics: Animal, House, Stripes

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.

Topics: Couple, Thinking, Would Be

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

source: - Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

Topics: Animal, House, Reviews

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.

Topics: Girl, Sound, Elements, Cannibal, Spoof

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.

Topics: Couple, Animal, House

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.

Topics: Real, Humor, Long, Good Actors

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.

Topics: Thinking, Way, Film, Thesis

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.

source: - "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press Conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

Topics: Real, People, Directors

I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.

Topics: Sex, Thinking, People

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.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Real, Thinking, Media, Backlash, Public Affairs

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.

source: - "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press Conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

Topics: Romantic Relationship, Participants, Mailing