Jason Reitman Quotes

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.

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. It'd Be Noon In Burbank. It Was Just A Running Commentary. All Executives - We Would Each Talk Through The Movie And Make Jokes.

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 With The Complicated Human Stuff In A Way That My Other Films Have Not. It's A More Articulated Film, And Because Of That, I'm Most Proud Of It.

I Always Believed That You Can Make Challenging Films, But They Should Be Fiscally Responsible.

When I Think Of 'nightmare On Elm Street,' There Was A Warmth To Those Teenagers That I Related To. They Were Not Aware That They Were In The Middle Of A Horror Film, And I Really Loved Those Characters And I Empathized With Them.

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 Turn Out Exactly As You Want. Sometimes They Don't. I Spent A Lot Of My Childhood On Sets. I Think As A Joke, My Father Gave Me A Line Of Dialogue In Each Of His Films During The Worst Moments Of My Puberty.

When It Comes To Casting, I've Been So Lucky. I've Worked With Unbelievable Actors Who Make Me Look Better Than I Am And Take The Written Word And Make It Honest.

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.

It's Easy To Get Caught Up In A Moment And Think, 'oh, I've Been Offered Some Giant Studio Film Or A Superhero Franchise Or Some Actor Wants To Meet With Me About A Project They Want To Do.' And It's Easy To Get Caught Up In A Moment Because It's Flattering. But You Can't Do A Movie Because It's Flattering.

Yeah, I Was Born In Montreal And I Go Back To Vancouver And Toronto A Lot, So I Have A Sense Of Being Canadian, And I Was Raised By Two Canadians, And My Wife Is Canadian, So Yeah, I Feel It.

Things Like Facebook Have Made You Feel As Though You're Connected To Everybody. You've Got A Thousand Friends On Facebook, But You Don't Actually Talk To Anybody. You're Not Close To Anybody.

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 I Could Say One Day That My Daddy Didn't Pay For My First Short Film. And I Really Established Myself In The Film Festival World.