Jason Bateman Quotes
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I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.
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I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
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I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
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And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.
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My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
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There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.
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Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.
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If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.
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When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
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On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.
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As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.
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I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.
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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
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I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
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It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
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It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.
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Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.
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Marathons are good training goals.
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Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.
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It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.
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It's not about the script: it's about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.
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I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
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I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.
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I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.