Ivan Reitman Quotes
It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
Quotes to Explore
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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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What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.
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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
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What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.
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Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.
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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
