Half the Picture's third guest is Jason Reitman, director of such modern classics as Juno, Up in the Air and his latest, Saturday Night: a visceral portrait of the 90 minutes leading up to the birth of the classic late-night comedy show!

Jason joined us to chat the length and breadth of his career, ranging from his exuberant debut ‘Thank You for Smoking’, to the life-changing impact of making ‘Juno’, up through the deeply personal journey he undertook making ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ with his father Ivan to working with the iconic J.K. Simmons and exec-producing Damien Chazelle's ‘Whiplash!'

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Timecodes:

0:00 - Intro

00:44 - Thank You for Smoking

04:57 - Directing is reacting

06:07 - Improvisation on set

10:30 - Young Adult

12:31 - Diablo Cody

13:37 - Up in the Air

16:08 - Flawed Protagonists

17:24 - Juno

25:01 - Tully

27:05 - Favourite Scenes

29:44 - Adapating novels to screen

31:53 - Discovering young stars

34:52 - Adam Sandler

38:45 - Maker's Mark in Diablo Cody scripts

40:09 - Eric Steelberg D.O.P.

43:59 - The Front Runner & confident directing

46:36 - Ghostbusters: Afterlife

48:51 - Growing as a filmmaker

51:32 - Jason's favourite directors

55:18 - Exciting upcoming movies

57:10 - Invisible directing

01:00:31 - Letterboxd

01:02:20 - Saturday Night

01:05:08 - J.K. Simmons & producing Whiplash

01:06:56 - Outro