Jason Reitman Quotes

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

I love making movies.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.

The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That's absolutely the fascination, whether it's people that are in the industry or it's just diehard fans. Because he's our modern-day master. We're lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.

For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

I'm Kubrick without the O.C.D.

When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.

I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in front of me, but movies seemed like they were delivered, wholly made, from Zeus's head or something.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

I love having made a movie.