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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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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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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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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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 don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
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We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
