Jason Reitman Quotes

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.

I'm going through a beautiful stage in my life. I've learned about love, about life, about everything.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.