Best Jason Reitman Quotes
- I've always had an underdog perspective. Inspirational
- It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts. Comedy
- Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week. Documentaries
- My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine. Guy
- Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. Allow
- There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen… Direct
- Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen… Accidents
- I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and… Buy
- 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act… Act
- Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now.… Fond
- People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't… Certain
- 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film… Alien
- All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're… Airport
- And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or… Binary
- And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want… Articulating
- As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or… Afternoon
- Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of… Arm
- From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters… Ability
- Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films… Audience
- I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in… Beverly
- I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's… Bad
- I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so… Calendar
- I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the… Approach
- I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic… Always Thought
- I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to… Answers