Jason Reitman Quotes
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
Quotes to Explore
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
