We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that opens up that would like him to stop living… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that. — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Believe me, there is a ton of stuff we shot on Superbad that was unusable, because people were just riffing and riffing. It's just… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on. — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Isla [Fisher] is so pretty we were trying to decide who the hell should play against her that would intimidate her, and one day… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet. — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
[Keeping Up with the Joneses] is not one of those movies where people get shot and fall down and there's no reality of what… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Zach's [Galifianakis] and I auditioned Zach a million years ago on a movie called Duplex which I was fired… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I guess bittersweet is probably my favorite tone, as a lover of Woody Allen and Federico Fellini and the French New Wave. You know,… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the Mall Of… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done and what… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I was in college - Carnegie Mellon, which is one of the reasons Pittsburgh was appealing to me - and I personally feel that… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like Seth Rogen,… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
![“We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that opens up that would like him to stop living as a professional liar.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c3/greg-mottola-18911_ideas_we-didn-t-want-to-make-it-a-parody-of-do_2821297.jpg)
![“Isla [Fisher] is so pretty we were trying to decide who the hell should play against her that would intimidate her, and one day I said, "You know...this was before Superman had come out, Superman v. Batman: The Court Room Drama I like to call it.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/200/greg-mottola-18911_batman_isla-fisher-is-so-pretty-we-were-trying_677288.jpg)
![“Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f0/greg-mottola-18911_clear_jon-hamm-was-the-first-i-thought-of-for_700329.jpg)
![“[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/630/greg-mottola-18911_gals_gal-gadot-is-really-intense-and-scary-an_902264.jpg)
![“[Keeping Up with the Joneses] is not one of those movies where people get shot and fall down and there's no reality of what would happen if you got shot and knocked over a motorcycle. It's meant to be a slight comedy in that sense.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/685/greg-mottola-18911_comedy_keeping-up-with-the-joneses-is-not-one-o_972867.jpg)
![“I'm a huge fan of Zach's [Galifianakis] and I auditioned Zach a million years ago on a movie called Duplex which I was fired from. But Zach came in - It was like 2000, maybe - as a buddy stand-up that people were starting to notice and there was something about him I loved. He wasn't quite right…” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a12/greg-mottola-18911_buddy_i-m-a-huge-fan-of-zach-s-galifianakis-an_1011792.jpg)
