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 have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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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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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
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I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.
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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.
