Quotes by Greg Mottola

Greg Mottola

[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.

Intense

Scary

Sweet

[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.

Fall

People

Reality

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 part of the Judd Apatow method, and part of the technique is to also be able to rewrite the movie again in the editing room.

Believe

Believe In Me

People

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don’t know if it’s shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

College

Silly

Song

Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the same questions and fears and unhappiness. Particularly those kinds of artists who were writing songs about exactly those things.

Artist

Song

Writing

Even the mistakes and the pain that you’ve caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I’m trying to capture

Mistake

Pain

Trying

I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we’re going to become, there are little tests along the way.

Decision

Different

People

I don’t really talk about this because it seems indulgent, but I lost my hair, I’m bald, I had alopecia in my teens. That was back in the late ’80s, well before people shaved their heads. So it’s probably one of the reasons why I have been obsessed with that age, because it’s locked in time where I feel like I had this personal loss that so affected my vanity, and I don’t really feel like I handled it well. I’m so much older now, so it’s not a big deal, but when I think back at it, I can conjure up how I felt then.

Loss

People

Thinking

I don’t see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the suburbs are not so wonderful, so my movies tend to be a little melancholy.

Feelings

People

Wonderful

I feel like I came from a generation where… We didn’t have Vietnam. We didn’t have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon us to make men out of us, so you’re kind of free to not grow up that way if you don’t want to.

Growing Up

Men

War

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Amazon

Artist

Believe

Believe In Me

Character

College

Danger

Decision

Different

Dog

Done

Drama

Fall

Feelings

First Love

Firsts

Flaws

Fun

Gals

Girl

Girlfriend

Glad

Growing Up

Guy

Harry Potter Series

Hbo

Heart

Ideas

Intense

Intimidated

Italian

Liars

Limitation

Lonely

Long

Loss

Lovers

Lows

Men

Mistake

Mother

Moving

Night

One Day

Pain

People

Personality

Pet

Play

Potters

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Quotes by Greg Mottola

Greg Mottola

[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.

[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.

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 part of the Judd Apatow method, and part of the technique is to also be able to rewrite the movie again in the editing room.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don’t know if it’s shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the same questions and fears and unhappiness. Particularly those kinds of artists who were writing songs about exactly those things.

Even the mistakes and the pain that you’ve caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I’m trying to capture

I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we’re going to become, there are little tests along the way.

I don’t see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the suburbs are not so wonderful, so my movies tend to be a little melancholy.

I feel like I came from a generation where… We didn’t have Vietnam. We didn’t have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon us to make men out of us, so you’re kind of free to not grow up that way if you don’t want to.

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