Top 15 Ivan Reitman Quotes

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.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

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.

I’ve always been a fan of science fiction films, and I’ve never been able to put my particular spin on it.

My sense is, I think it’s okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

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.

In many ways, I think that, while we’ve been remarkably violent in our media, there’s been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we’re way more explicit than we’ve ever been.

I don’t think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

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.

It’s sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you’re dealing with.

I’d always been a science fiction enthusiast.

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.

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

I love horror and sci-fi.

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.