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Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
Jason Reitman
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Jason Reitman
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 19
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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.
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'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.
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I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.
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