I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not a schematic movie. For better or worse, it's not a wish-fulfillment movie. It's got a kind of happy… — 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
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
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
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
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
[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet. — Greg Mottola Copy Share
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
