Director Jason Reitman and cinematographer Eric Steelberg first met as teenagers, and the two soon became friends who shared a love of filmmaking.
Steelberg recalls Reitman was “another skinny dude who loved movies. I met him, and he was playing with Legos and a Super 8 camera. It was fantastic. That’s what I did, too. I screwed around with friends and a video camera trying to make movies and get lost in stories.”
Reitman was impressed with Steelberg’s skills. “He was already shooting on 16mm film at 15 years old. It was unheard of,” the filmmaker says.
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