Jason Reitman Quotes

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Adults are obsolete children.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

When you're young, you think your parents are embarrassing and always saying and doing the wrong things, but as you get older you really appreciate how right they were about so much.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely inside their own social moment, and thus tend to see all existence past age thirty or so as somehow postcoital. It's then that they'll relax, settle back, sad animals, to watch- and learn, as Ambrose himself said he learned from hard artistic and academic experience- that life instead of being rated a hard R, or even a soft R, actually rarely even makes it into distribution. Tends to be too slow.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.