150 Quotes by Jason Reitman

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.

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.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

I'm a kind of private guy.

I've always had an underdog perspective.

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.