Jason Reitman Quotes

Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

I just came from school one day and told my mom I want to start my finance company.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.