Explore Quotes by Jason Bateman

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.

I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

The people at Netflix are extremely intelligent about the way they monitor activity on their platform.

I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.

I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.

I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.

I really appreciate comedy a lot.

I really like dramas that have a tone of comedy in them or the opposite, and those are done by people like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman but also Spike Jonze and David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers.

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

We had, like, the greatest time you could ever imagine doing 'Arrested Development.' And as grateful as we are for the careers we have afterwards, it was - we still miss it.

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.

You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.