Jason Reitman Quotes - Page 3

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• I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

  Jason Reitman

  Gun, House, Originals

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• I find nice people kind of boring.

  Jason Reitman

  Nice, People, Kind

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• 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.

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• I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

  Jason Reitman

  Flyers, Obsessive

  "TIFF 2009 – Writer-Director Jason Reitman on Being Festival Royalty". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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

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  Challenges, Film, Responsible

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

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• Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

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  Next Day, Different, Want

  "‘Young Adult’: Diablo Cody & Jason Reitman Make A Brave Choice" by Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Son, Thinking, Careers

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

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• 'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

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  Movie, Names, Giving

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• I'm a kind of private guy.

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  Guy, Kind

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• I've always had an underdog perspective.

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  Perspective, Underdog

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• I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

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  Thinking, Technology, People

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• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

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  Childhood, Feelings, Skins

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

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

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  Character, Want, Open Minded

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

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  Art, Drama, Creating

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• 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. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

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  School, Past, People

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. December 15, 2011.

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• '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 of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

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  Coffee, Sacrifice, Self

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• 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.

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  Movie, Art, Mistake

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

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• 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 in as honest a way as possible.

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  Want, Way, Honest

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

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  Nuts, Comedy, Horror

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

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• The first set I remember was 'Ghostbusters.' It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, 'Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.'

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  New York, Thinking, Years

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• Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'

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  Fun, Office, Sound

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. December 4, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Crush, Careers, Perfect

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• And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

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  Phones, Next, Stranger

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. December 4, 2009.

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• Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

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  Growing Up, Perspective, Generations

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

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• 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.

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  Made, Like Facebook, Thousand

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