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
festival fortunate movies struggling
A lot of movies at this festival were struggling to find distributors, ... This film was fortunate enough to find more than its share.
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When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.
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Yes, there are bodily function issues that are a central premise of this movie and I think they're handled with amazing delicacy of humor.
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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.
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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 that we later borrowed in some form.
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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 done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.
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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.
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Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.
dvds different theater
Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.
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.
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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.
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.