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.
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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.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
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Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
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Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
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We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.
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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.
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Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.
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I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.
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I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.
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My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.
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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.
