Ivan Reitman Quotes
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
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There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
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New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
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Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.
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Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
