Jason Reitman Quotes

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• I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend.…
• And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals…
• I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it…
• If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I…
• Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting…
• Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films…
• I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it…
• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange…
• I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
• I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't…
• Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the…
• Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the…
• Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as…
• Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
• 'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.
• I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.
• I am an obsessive flyer, myself.
• I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.
• I find nice people kind of boring.
• I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

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