Who is Jason Reitman
Jason R. Reitman ( ; born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian-American actor and filmmaker, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). He has received one Grammy Award, one Golden Globe, and four Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Director. Reitman is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. He is the son of director Ivan Reitman, and known for frequently collaborating with screenwriter Diablo Cody.Early life
Reitman was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Geneviève Robert, an actress sometimes billed as Geneviève Deloir, and film director Ivan Reitman (1946–2022). Reitman has two younger sisters: Catherine Reitman, an actress,...
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- Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
- 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.'
- I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
- Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
- I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
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Ken80593: it's funny, i can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.,jason reitman,funny, good, me ,Kalebkoho: our final matchup of round 1 sees two very different directors face off: the human perspective of jason reitman vs the hellish and whimsical landscape of sam raimi
Jaci76046: it's funny, i can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.,jason reitman,funny, good, me ,
Jayvolk: thank you for smoking should have made aaron eckhart an a-list star
Pop_kulture_kop: patton oswalt in ghostbusters sounds terrible. i don't see how he fits in. ghostbusters was always about dry, witty, subtle humor for the most part. oswalt is none of those. i loved afterlife. i have serious concerns about the new one, especially without jason reitman.
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