It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life. — 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
![“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)
