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• Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

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• When you’re young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

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• 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.

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• When it comes to casting, I’ve been so lucky. I’ve worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.

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• When I think of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.

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• 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.

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• 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.’

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• What I do feel is that ‘Up in the Air’ is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

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• Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I’ve made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time – they are my audience. They’re the people that I think about while I’m writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

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• Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.

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• Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you’re connected to everybody. You’ve got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don’t actually talk to anybody. You’re not close to anybody.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The first set I remember was ‘Ghostbusters.’ It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, ‘Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.’

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• Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.

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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.

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• Really, it’s the director’s job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

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• People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don’t. I don’t want people to think that I’m trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that’s cheap filmmaking.

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• My writing voice is very much like ‘Thank You for Smoking.’ It’s a guy’s voice. It’s very masculine.

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• My high-school years were so mediocre – I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a video nerd.

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Jason Reitman (80)

Birth:	19th October, 1977
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Jason Reitman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a Canadian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is the son of director Ivan Reitman. He directed several films include: Thank You for Smoking, Juno(Nominated- Academy Award for Best Director), Up in the Air(Nominated- Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Director), Young Adult, Labor Day, Men, Women & Children, and Tully. He produced several films include: Jennifer's Body, Up in the Air, Chloe, Young Adult, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Labor Day, Men, Women & Children, and Tully. He has written several films include: Thank You for Smoking(Won- Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay), Up in the Air(Nominated- Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Labor Day, and Men, Women & Children.

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