Jason Reitman Quotes

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

I've never been a confessional writer.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.