3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I really enjoy theater. I just went to see ‘Death of a Salesman,’ and it knocked me on my ass.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, ‘Oh I change too, I’m constantly becoming a better person.’
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman 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.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I don’t want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films – and I hope there isn’t – it’s to be open-minded.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I’m not going to make a Haneke film. That’s just not in my DNA.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I’m 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.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman 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.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I’m equally guilty of using technology – I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there’s something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we’re closer when in fact we’re not seeing each other, we’re not connecting.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I’ve been very, very lucky in my career, in my life – from day one. When aspiring directors say, ‘What’s your advice?’ first I say, ‘Be born the son of a famous director. It’s invaluable.’
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I’m not going to have a perfect career. It’s 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.
