"A good actor is someone who knows how……" — Ivan Reitman
"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."
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32 Quotes by Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman has 32 quotes on this site.
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I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it…
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Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical…
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I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even…
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I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with…
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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for…
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I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though…
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I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've…
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We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.
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Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of…
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My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes…
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I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
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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…
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