Jason Reitman Quotes
When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
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People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
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When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.