Jason Reitman Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Mistake, Thinking, Digital

• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Father, Son

• 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 - it's to be open-minded.

  Jason Reitman

  Giving, Messages, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

  Jason Reitman

  Dog, Writing, Thinking

• 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

• The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Thinking, Next Week

  Source: www.thewrap.com

• I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

  Jason Reitman

  Challenges, Film, Responsible

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

• 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 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

• Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

  Jason Reitman

  Directors, Film

  Source: collider.com

• I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

  Jason Reitman

  Dna, Want, Film

• 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 a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Views, People

• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Thank You, Air, Smoking

• With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

  Jason Reitman

  Issues, Trying, Littles

  Source: collider.com

• It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

  Jason Reitman

  Nuts, Comedy, Horror

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Years, Daddy, One Day

• 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 was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

  Jason Reitman

  Thank You, Hate, Thinking

• I'm a believer that people need to understand that filmmaking is not a perfect process for anybody. It is a process in which you find the film and the film finds you. And that is every film.

  Jason Reitman

  People, Perfect, Needs

  Source: collider.com

• 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 and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

  Jason Reitman

  Movie, Art, Mistake

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. December 4, 2009.

• I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Editing, Cameras

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 07, 2011.

• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Superhero, Giants

• What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

  Jason Reitman

  Air, Portraits, Film

• '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 I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Reality, Empowerment

• Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.

  Jason Reitman

  Art, Unique, Play

• 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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