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Ivan Reitman

"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."

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A.E. Samaan

"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."

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"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."

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A.E. Samaan

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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A.E. Samaan

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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A.E. Samaan

"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

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A.E. Samaan

"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"

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"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."

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"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."

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"Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy."

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

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Ivan Reitman
"I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now."

Film

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Ivan Reitman
"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."

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Ivan Reitman
"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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Ivan Reitman
"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."

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Ivan Reitman
"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."

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Ivan Reitman
"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."

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Ivan Reitman
"I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters."

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"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."

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

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