When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite”s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old. Jason Reitman More Quotes by Jason Reitman More Quotes From 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. Jason Reitman next-day different want When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. Jason Reitman film writing thinking 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. Jason Reitman messages answers giving I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters. Jason Reitman open-minded want character 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 childhood skins feelings 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. Jason Reitman film dna want 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. Jason Reitman technology people thinking Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't. Jason Reitman people past school 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. Jason Reitman empowerment writing reality All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport. Jason Reitman coffee new-york beautiful And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people. Jason Reitman blue people moving And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel. Jason Reitman lasts want years It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy. Jason Reitman comedy horror nuts I've always had an underdog perspective. Jason Reitman underdog perspective I'm a kind of private guy. Jason Reitman guy kind I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor. Jason Reitman meds doctors college 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. Jason Reitman crush careers perfect 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice. Jason Reitman sacrifice coffee self What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009. Jason Reitman portraits film air Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments. Jason Reitman movie mistake art
