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Jason Reitman

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Jason Reitman
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Jason Reitman is saying that it's more valuable to create many films, accepting that some will be less successful, than to produce only a few and be devastated by any failures. He uses Billy Wilder as an example of someone who made a large number of movies with several outstanding ones, showing that quantity with some quality is better than a small, fragile output.

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