And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or s…

- Jason Reitman

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

- Jason Reitman

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afterno…

- Jason Reitman

And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the …

- Jason Reitman

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up …

- Jason Reitman

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

- Jason Reitman

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

- Jason Reitman

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience …

- Jason Reitman

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all t…

- Jason Reitman