Jason Reitman – Quotes Crazy

Im equally guilty of using technology – I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think theres something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think were closer when in fact were not seeing each other, were not connecting. – Jason Reitman

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You dont think of it as just movies, but as a life. – Jason Reitman

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, Im not going to make a Haneke film. Thats just not in my DNA. – Jason Reitman

I hate movies that tell people what to think. Im proud that Democrats thought Thank You For Smoking was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. Im proud that pro-choice people thought Juno was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs. – Jason Reitman

Im not going to have a perfect career. Its better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you. – Jason Reitman

Im not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers. – Jason Reitman

When youre 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. – Jason Reitman

I dont want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films – and I hope there isnt – its to be open-minded. – Jason Reitman

Its funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts. – Jason Reitman

Ive been very, very lucky in my career, in my life – from day one. When aspiring directors say, Whats your advice? first I say, Be born the son of a famous director. Its invaluable. – Jason Reitman

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see Death of a Salesman, and it knocked me on my ass. – Jason Reitman

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, Oh I change too, Im constantly becoming a better person. – Jason Reitman

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible. – Jason Reitman

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood – all those things feel really true to me. – Jason Reitman