Jake Kasdan
The American film industry of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries produced a generation of filmmakers who moved fluidly between directing, writing, and producing, shaping projects from conception to screen. Jake Kasdan belongs to that generation, a Detroit-born filmmaker who has worked across multiple roles within the industry since his career began.
Born on October 28, 1974, Kasdan is a citizen of the United States who works in English. His professional life spans four distinct but related crafts: directing, screenwriting, film producing, and acting. This range of involvement places him among those who engage with film not from a single vantage point but from several simultaneously, with each role informing the others. As a director and screenwriter, he has had a hand in shaping the material and its visual realization; as a producer, he has occupied a position with broader oversight of a project's development; and as an actor, he has stood on the other side of the camera as well.
That combination of credits across performance, writing, and production reflects an engagement with the filmmaking process that resists easy categorization. Kasdan's work as a director is the most prominently documented of his occupations, and it is in that capacity that his name most consistently appears in relation to the projects he has undertaken. His career, built across these overlapping disciplines, represents the kind of sustained, multi-faceted involvement in American cinema that defines a working filmmaker rather than a specialist confined to one corner of the industry.
Quotes by Jake Kasdan
When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you're given.
You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.
My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.
I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.
When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is youre given.
You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope its something that can have a long life.
In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.
I had never worked in television before 'Freaks and Geeks,' and 'New Girl' is the first time since that I've worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.
In general, I've been treated well by reviews, and there are times when I haven't. The truth is that I've come to feel like I'm better off without reading them.