Jason Reitman Quotes
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.
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can't just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
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On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
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So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?
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There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.
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There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
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I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.
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Today everything's a conflict of interest.
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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.
