Ruben Fleischer Biography

Fast Facts

• Earned his degree from Wesleyan University
• Started out working as a production assistant on the series "Dawson's Creek․"
• Unsure of what he wanted to do after college, he relocated to San Francisco and worked as an HTML programmer
• Got his start in filmmaking as a director of music videos and commercials
• Quote: "[On his advice to aspiring filmmakers] "Go shoot stuff! Technology is so affordable at this point that you can have a really great camera with relatively good sound for not that much money․․․ There are no excuses not to be making stuff․ That is how you learn, by teaching yourself how to do it and hopefully, it is how you get discovered as well․""
• Quote: "As a young director, I think I was really excited to capitalize on a moment and get outside a certain genre I was doing and just push myself․"
• Well known for his work on "Zombieland․"