From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

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In the three movies that he's done, director Jason Reipen,

thank you for smoking,

Juno, and now his newest,

which of course is an adaptation of Walter Currens off in the air. They've all been about the intersection between family and some extent trade and commerce. First of all, Jason, thanks so much for coming back. It's a ritual now. I don't think I'm allowed to make the movie as if I don't come on your show.

But I'm fascinated by that because they're all really, even more so,

I mean, thank you for smoking doesn't have as a bigger family aspect in the novel as it does the way you did the adaptation. The family is really key to it. And I wonder why family has been so important to you in the movies that you've done. It's interesting that you bring that up because I did not go in

with any intention on any of my films to make them family-oriented films, or at least to make

family pivotal in the narrative of either of them, any of them. But you're not the first person

to bring this up. A few people have come to me and said, family must be very important to you

because it figures into all of your

films.

And I find as a director, you don't come into making a movie with the intention of fulfilling

some sort of idea.

You just kind of go off of your instincts.

And it's only after making a few films that journalists and moviegoers start to come to tell you what kind of

director you are.

And it actually, it could put you in therapy because you really don't know what kind of

person you are, what kind of filmmaker you are, and what kind of person you are until you've

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