Ivan Reitman Quotes

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.

Ivan Reitman

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• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Worst

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Party

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Woman
  • First
  • Step

• For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel Good

• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Me
  • Mad
  • Difference

• The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Education

• All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Up
  • Children

• One of the problems in our lives is that people from different segments of our society just don't communicate with each other, nor do you ever see entertainment where they communicate with each other and fight with each other.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Different
  • Society

• I'm trying, now that I am in my dotage, to use a lot less sugar and my husband and I really try to keep close to a minimum of fat; chicken, fish, loads of salads and legumes. We both love all of those. To be honest, nothing that is in our diet is that original. We eat seafood but we do not eat shellfish. On the other hand, if my body says to me, "eat meat" I do. I listen to my body, I think that's important.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Trying

• A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Always
  • Things
  • Really

• It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

  

  Alante Kavaite
  • Director
  • Female
  • Consider

• 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.

  

  Ivan Reitman
  • Opportunity
  • Director
  • Improvisation