I think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new… — 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 Image
Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 think what they think about it, but I'm very happy with what we did. I'm really proud of whatever all the actors what we all kind of accomplished and so regardless of how well it does… — 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 Image
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 never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write… — 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 kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got… — 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 Image
Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every… — 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 Image
