Jason Reitman Quotes - Page 4

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• I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

  Jason Reitman

  Brother, Believe, Cutting

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

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• I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

  Jason Reitman

  Insane, Circus, Environment

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• 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

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• And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.

  Jason Reitman

  Years, Want, Lasts

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• And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

  Jason Reitman

  Moving, Blue, People

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• All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.

  Jason Reitman

  Beautiful, New York, Coffee

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• 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

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

  Jason Reitman

  Thank You, Writing, Voice

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• 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

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• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Thank You, Rip, Passion

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• 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

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• I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.

  Jason Reitman

  Hands, Feelings, Pieces

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• From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

  Jason Reitman

  Drama, Dimes, Comedy

  "Jason Reitman to re-create Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' in live reading" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. November 09, 2012.

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