A biography for Jason Batemanhasn’t been written yet.
“My upbringing as a child was very atypical.”
“I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.”
“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.”
“Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.”
“You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.”
“If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.”
“On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.”
“Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.”
“I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.”
“It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.”
“Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.”
“Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.”
“I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'”
“My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.”
“I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.”
“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.”
“People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.”
“My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.”
“It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.”
“I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.”