The 40+ Ivan Reitman Quotes

I Believe That Improvisation Is Really Just A Directorial Tool. It's A Writing Tool.

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.

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.

It Seemed Like So 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. I Think It's Sort Of Shifted The Energy Of That First Romantic Meeting, Where It's Quicker, Perhaps More Desperate, More Energetic, In A Whole Different Way, And It's Resulted In A Situation Where People Seem To Be Sometimes More Comfortable Having A Sexual Relationship Than An Emotional One.

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.

I've Always Been A Fan Of Science Fiction Films, And I've Never Been Able To Put My Particular Spin On It.

I Love Horror And Sci-fi.

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.

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.

My First Student Film Was Orientation, Which Was Basically The Set-up For Animal House. There Are A Couple Of Scenes That We Later Borrowed In Some Form.

Then My First Film Was Something Called Cannibal Girls, Which Sounds Like A Horror Movie But Was Actually Kind Of A Goofy Comedy With Horror Elements. Like A Horror Spoof.

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.