Ivan Reitman Quotes
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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What I do for a living is listen.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
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I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.
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My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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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.
