Ivan Reitman Quotes
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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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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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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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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
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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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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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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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Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.
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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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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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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.