All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie. — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this.… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like...and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day,… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so people can… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them. — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie. — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share
