Jason Reitman Quotes

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

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• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Music
  • Power
  • Free

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Society
  • Celebrity
  • Everyone

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Think
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Fun

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Children
  • School

• If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Like

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Walk

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Live
  • Name
  • Mankind

• On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Free
  • Cancer

• Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I remember one day during my freshman year of high school, when as usual I was obsessively listening to a cast recording: it may have been 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' And I remember sitting there, totally absorbed, saying to myself, 'I can do this.'

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • School
  • May
  • Remember

• In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Movie
  • Feeling
  • Interview

• Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Job
  • Movie