Jason Reitman Quotes
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.
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I like progress but I hate change.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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The American people have not become heartless.
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I'm doing a little bit of acting, but I can't really say it's going to be a career or even that I'm really suited to it. It's a whole other craft you have to study and be passionate about.
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Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
