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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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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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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When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.
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I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.
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I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.
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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.
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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
