Ivan Reitman Quotes
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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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.
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We are growing both in the U.S. and in India, and all our business plans are made accordingly. So we are expanding both in U.S. and in India.
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I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
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Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
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Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.
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As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .
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To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
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If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.
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In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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She was suspicious of anyone who was pushing not one, not two, but three male-led religions rolled into one.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.
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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.
