Jason Reitman Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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 the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

  Jason Reitman

  Movie, Character, Actors

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.

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

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Want, Open Minded

• 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 out of indie subjects excites me.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, People, Kind

• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Teenager, Character, Thinking

• When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Voice, People

• When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Feel Better, Thinking

• I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like why aren't I happier? With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Successful, Trying

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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