Nicholas Stoller

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…

— Nicholas Stoller

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there…

— Nicholas Stoller

I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat…

— Nicholas Stoller

And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I…

— Nicholas Stoller

I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test…

— Nicholas Stoller

But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so…

— Nicholas Stoller

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…

— Nicholas Stoller

And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter)…

— Nicholas Stoller

The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that…

— Nicholas Stoller

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

— Nicholas Stoller

Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The…

— Nicholas Stoller

When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And…

— Nicholas Stoller

Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the…

— Nicholas Stoller

We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song…

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When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need…

— Nicholas Stoller

It's interesting to have the awkward moments play out, and the real human interactions. The more you cut that down, you lose…

— Nicholas Stoller

They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go…

— Nicholas Stoller

For my wife and I, our first child was really easy to have, but our second one was really hard to have.…

— Nicholas Stoller

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what…

— Nicholas Stoller

And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like…

— Nicholas Stoller

I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to…

— Nicholas Stoller

“The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all”

— Nicholas Stoller

I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's…

— Nicholas Stoller

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

— Nicholas Stoller

I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big…

— Nicholas Stoller