“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.”

Canadian and American filmmaker

Jason Reitman is a Canadian and American filmmaker best known for directing films such as Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Saturday Night. He has received a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe, and four Academy Award nominations, including two for Best Director. The son of director Ivan Reitman, he is also known for frequent collaborations with screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Gil Kenan.