Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman, OCis 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 2000...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth27 October 1946
CityKomarno, Slovakia
CountryCanada
dvds different theater
Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.
drama watches caught
We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.
home different rooms
The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.
acting important persons
It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
helping comedy
In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.
strings-attached way honest
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.
reality steps one-step-at-a-time
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.
children years awards
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
stripes juicy today
I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.
thinking sense-of-humor born
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
movie kind achieve
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 thinking careers
My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
thinking fiction juniors
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
real people pushing
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.