Jason Reitman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.”

“I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.”

“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 learn from them.”

“Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.”

“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 a life.”

“My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.”

“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 screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.”

“I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.”

“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 need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.”

“When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.”