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  • As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.

    "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’" by Kathy A. Mcdonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.
  • I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.

    "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.
  • I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.

    "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.
  • I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

  • It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

  • I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.

  • When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

    "Jason Bateman Talks Making His Feature Directorial Debut, Why He Chose This Script, Shooting Digitally, and More on the Set of Bad Words". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2014.
  • I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.

    Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2009.
  • If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

  • Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.

  • There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.

    Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 2, 2009.
  • I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.

  • Marathons are good training goals.

  • I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

  • I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

  • Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

    "‘Bad Words’ Set Interview: Jason Bateman Talks Directing". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 6, 2014.
  • Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

    "Career Watch: Jason Bateman Gets Down with his ‘Bad’ Self" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2014.
  • People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

  • What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.

    "Emmys Q&A: Jason Bateman". "AwardsLine" with Anthony D'Alessandro, deadline.com. August 27, 2013.
  • As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

  • I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have.

    "‘Bad Words’ Set Interview: Jason Bateman Talks Directing". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 6, 2014.
  • The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.

    "‘Bad Words’ Set Interview: Jason Bateman Talks Directing". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 6, 2014.
  • My hobbies have varied over the years. There were a whole set of new ones before I got married. Now I spend as much time with my wife, who is my best friend.

  • And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.

  • I think the internet is a huge positive.

    "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.
  • I'm not a Hollywood party guy.

    Source: screenrant.com
  • I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

    "Jason Bateman Talks Making His Feature Directorial Debut, Why He Chose This Script, Shooting Digitally, and More on the Set of Bad Words". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2014.
  • I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.

  • Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

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