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Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he needed and I think that's bullshit, even if that was true for that singular filmmaker.

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Jason Reitman
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 19
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