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
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.
actors lines panic
The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.
style comedy parody
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
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.
distance emotional thinking
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.
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.
distance people texting
Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or e-mailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants.
believe characters decided early movies seemed smoking spin tobacco whereas
Very early on, I decided I didn't want smoking in the movie. It's not really a movie about smoking, but about lobbying. Tobacco is just the setting. It's not that I believe in the idea that movies should be responsible and not show smoking. But I think if the characters had been smoking, it would have seemed a pro-smoking movie, whereas it's about lobbying and spin and talk.