Ivan Reitman Quotes
It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
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Japan and South Korea are two of America's greatest trading partners and home to important U.S. military bases.
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There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts.
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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
