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Ivan Reitman Biography

Ivan Reitman, OC (born October 27, 1946) is a Slovak-Canadian film producer and director, best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.

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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Appropriate, Humor, Long, Movie, Real

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Attached, Comedy, Delicate, Sort, Strings Attached, Way

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Able, Fan, Fans, Fiction, Particular, Science

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

Dvds, Different, Theater, Movie, Watching

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

Already, Comedy, Enhance, Helping, Helps, Things

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.

Movie, Kind, Achieve, Funny, Work

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

Real, People, Directors, Perform, Becomes

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

Humor, Thinking, Born, Changed, Worse

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Career, Careers, Directors, Movie, Sense, Thinking

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say whatever they want, whatever pops into their head. It's an opportunity to write the last draft of the screenplay as you're working on it.

Believe, Directorial, Head, Opportunity, Tool, Writing

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Acting, Important, Listen, Person, Persons, Thing

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

Reality, Steps, One Step At A Time, Take, Make, Time

I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

Animal, House, Stripes, Remember, Quite

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

Able, Ghostbusters, Kinds, Opportunity, Worked, Years

Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it’s texting or emailing or Facebooking, there’s a kind of distance between the participants.

Distance, Facebooking, Participants, People, Texting

I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I was going to be a composer, long ago when I first started. So it was amazingly fun to do those two routines in the film.

Composer, Film, Fun, Long Ago, Routines, Two

I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. It's not that they all get along, or that there aren't bad people or people we make fun of. But at the core, there's a kind of sweetness.

Character, Characters, Films, Fun, People, Sweetness

When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.

Stars, Successful, Creative, Bring, Say

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

People, Actors, Bills, Murray, Worked, Thought

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

Fiction, Juniors, Science, Think, Thinking

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