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"I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass."

Jason Reitman on Death

More quotes about Death

  • "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Death

  • "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

    Buddha on Death

  • "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

    Albert Einstein on Death

  • "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

    Mark Twain on Death

  • "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

    Helen Keller on Death

More quotes by Jason Reitman

  • "Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?"

  • "When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'"

  • "Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?"

  • "I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts."

  • "Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me."

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