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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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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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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As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.
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I am comfortable with how I look.
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Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.
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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
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You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
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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.
