Jason Reitman Quotes

It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.

Jason Reitman

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Job
  • Law

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Live
  • Can
  • Scenes

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Police
  • Missing

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Test
  • Testing

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Act
  • Many
  • Forming

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I'm the type of fighter who has never made an excuse. I fought with a broken rib, broken leg.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Broken

• Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Up
  • Art
  • Healing

• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.

  

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