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Jason Reitman
Canadian
Director
Born:
Oct 19
,
1977
Comedy
Director
Me
People
Think
You
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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.
Jason Reitman
Family
Me
Relationship
You
Strange
Youth
World
Feeling
Narcissism
Own
Skin
Those
Having
Uncomfortable
True
Feel
Around
Selfishness
Childhood
Being
Really
Your
Connected
Things
I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.
Jason Reitman
You
Hate
People
Comedy
Challenge
Think
Drama
Settle
Tool
Approach
Laugh
Tell
About
Push
Never
Idea
Open-Minded
Like
Perhaps
Genre
Make
Opinion
Move
Just
Romance
Being
Want
Stories
Movies
Really
Viewer
Original
When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.
Jason Reitman
Old
Style
Nine
Say
Would
Ten
Ten Years
Reminded
Spoke
Stuff
Like
Look
Napoleon
Boy
How
Duh
Years
Essence
Just
Eight
Dynamite
Capturing
I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.
Jason Reitman
Myself
You
Director
Feeling
Consider
Top
Gut
About
Gut Feeling
Bossy
Never
Envisioned
Know
Piece
Hill
Material
Hand
Screaming
Want
There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.
Jason Reitman
You
Way
Possible
Direct
Only
Make
Sure
Screen
Want
Movies
Many
Honest
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 time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.
Jason Reitman
Time
You
Better
Comedy
Drama
Dime
Find
Ability
All-Time
Allen
Writers
He
Simply
Major
Make
Match
Greatest
Dialogue
Hit
Than
Going
Pathos
Wanted
Woody
Woody Allen
Turn
Then
Much
Series
Based
I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.
Jason Reitman
Guns
House
Original
I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.
Jason Reitman
Myself
Character
Me
Looking
Big
Every
Out
About
Something
Through
Feel
Stuff
Like
Most
Doing
Trying
Big Stuff
Whether
Happier
Little
Movies
Successful
Figure
Expose
Film
Why
Here
Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.
Jason Reitman
Generation
Perspective
Every
Worse
Feel
Like
Know
Sure
How
Coming
Shifts
Up
Getting
Behind
Them
Your
Grow
Grow Up
I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.
Jason Reitman
Technology
People
Think
Twitter
Other
Guilty
Insidious
Seeing
About
Something
Fact
Chat
Equally
Makes
Text
Closer
In Fact
Us
Strangely
Connecting
Using
Each
I'm a kind of private guy.
Jason Reitman
Kind
Guy
Private
Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.
Jason Reitman
Life
Today
Day
Better
Sense
Everyone
Way
Direction
Feel
Know
Deal
Than
Going
Just
Where
Different
Loved
Wants
Next
Different Way
And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.
Jason Reitman
You
Complicated
Smoking
Thank You
Films
Other
Air
Way
See
More
Between
Stuff
Most
Because
Deals
Proud
Up
Thank
Articulated
Improvement
Human
Biggest
Film
There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.
Jason Reitman
Myself
People
Try
Own
Films
Secret
Plenty
My Own
Directors
No Secret
Emotionally
Like
Issues
Personal
Autobiographical
Little
Movies
Exploring
Certainly
Who
Expose
Each
Film
Each One
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
Jason Reitman
Director
Job
Allow
Disappear
Feel
Just
Movie
Really
Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.
Jason Reitman
Character
You
Face
Starts
Find
Finding
See
Shape
Head
Arm
Piece
Chip
Then
Granite
Away
Start
Filmmaking
Gather
When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
Jason Reitman
You
Director
Together
Out
Weave
Somehow
Only
Scene
Head
Idea
Make
Doing
Line
His
End
Going
Order
Movie
In The End
Shot
Whole
Her
Thing
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
Jason Reitman
People
Become
See
About
Week
Vegetarian
Most
Documentary
Industry
Then
Meat
I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.
Jason Reitman
You
Director
Simple
Made
Believe
Brothers
Longer
Make
Blood
Did
Where
Cut
Cuts
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Coen
Thing
Things
Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'
Jason Reitman
You
Drive
Kind
Would
Someone
Directing
Like
Sounds
Yes
Office
Going
Your
Fun
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.'
Jason Reitman
You
Change
Yourself
Better
Think
Too
On-Screen
Characters
Constantly
About
Better Person
Feel
Makes
Becoming
Person
Oh
Screen
I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.
Jason Reitman
You
Hate
People
Smoking
Thought
Thank You
Think
Tell
Democrats
Proud
Thank
Pro-Choice
Pro-Life
Republicans
Movies
Film
It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.
Jason Reitman
Me
You
Think
Meet
Project
Franchise
Giant
Easy
Some
Superhero
About
Studio
Because
Caught
Been
Up
Offered
Get
Oh
Want
Movie
Wants
Flattering
Moment
Film
Actor
If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.
Jason Reitman
You
Smoking
Passion
Made
Thank You
Every
Else
Air
Project
Would
Rip
Someone
Take
Head
Sort
Off
Up
Thank
Same
Wanted
Need
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
Jason Reitman
Air
Indicative
Feel
Most
Up
Film
Portrait
I've always had an underdog perspective.
Jason Reitman
Perspective
Had
Underdog
Always
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