[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet. — Greg Mottola Comic 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… — Greg Mottola Budgets 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… — Greg Mottola Done 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… — Greg Mottola Cell phone 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.… — Greg Mottola Believe 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… — Greg Mottola Clear 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.… — Greg Mottola Bittersweet 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… — Greg Mottola Delusion 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… — Greg Mottola Batman 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… — Greg Mottola College Copy Share Image
I was in college - Carnegie Mellon, which is one of the reasons Pittsburgh was appealing to me - and I personally… — Greg Mottola Carnegie 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… — Greg Mottola Buddy 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… — Greg Mottola Ambiguous Copy Share Image
Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture — Greg Mottola Capture Copy Share Image
I've been co-writing a TV thing with Bryan Cranston, which we are going to find out soon if it's moving forward or… — Greg Mottola Amazon Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite. — Greg Mottola Danger 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… — Greg Mottola Ideas 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… — Greg Mottola Comedy 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… — Greg Mottola Aspect Copy Share Image
Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the… — Greg Mottola Artist Copy Share Image
I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I… — Greg Mottola Character Copy Share Image
I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was… — Greg Mottola Generation Copy Share Image
Superman and Batman go to a small claims court together. I knew they'd cast [Gal Gadot], I had seen pictures of her,… — Greg Mottola Casts Copy Share Image
The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to… — Greg Mottola Business Copy Share Image
I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not… — Greg Mottola Dog Copy Share Image
I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they… — Greg Mottola Blue velvet Copy Share Image
I don't really talk about this because it seems indulgent, but I lost my hair, I'm bald, I had alopecia in my… — Greg Mottola Age Copy Share Image
I think Stanley Tucci was having an affair with his mother. He had this odd quality that I haven't seen him ever… — Greg Mottola Affair Copy Share Image
I talked about the summer of 1985, when I worked at an amusement park on Long Island, the kind of place where… — Greg Mottola Giving 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… — Greg Mottola Decision Copy Share Image
I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the… — Greg Mottola Feelings Copy Share Image
It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing… — Greg Mottola Intimidated Copy Share Image
![“[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)
![“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)
![“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)
![“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)
![“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)
![“[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)
![“Superman and Batman go to a small claims court together. I knew they'd cast [Gal Gadot], I had seen pictures of her, I remembered seeing her doing parts in movies and I went and re-watched stuff with hers and then met with her.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/436/greg-mottola-18911_casts_superman-and-batman-go-to-a-small-claims_1928169.jpg)
