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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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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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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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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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.
