Jason Bateman Quotes

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

No matter what strategies you make, if you don't get the right script, everything is going to go down.

Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, and you know everyone's done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it's just a wonderful outcome.

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

A lot of movies come out and you think, 'Couldn't you have just tried a little harder?'

A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.

At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.

When you don't win anything, at the end of the day, you cannot say it is a good season.

You can put in all the plays in the world, but if a guy is not executing it's not going to work.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.

There's always going to be a last-place guy.

I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

If you stop me from scoring, and I don't do anything else, then I've not really played well, have I? You can't score every game, so what are you doing if you're not scoring?

I just know that if you put my film on with anybody else's in the league, it'll measure up.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

The film musical is a very strange animal. They can bite you in the back, or they can do very well for you.

At the end of the day, it's a big difference to get the draw than to get the win, but I'll take either over a loss any day.

Timing and accuracy is really what matters at the end of the day.