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“Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.”
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“You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.”
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“College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.”
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“Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.”
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“Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.”
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“Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.”
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“The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.”
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“I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.”
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“I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.”
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“I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.”
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“I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.”
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“Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi, they're pretty personality-less.”
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“I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.”
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“No matter how much you love someone, on a bad day, you could say something terrible. All of the little things that you are saving to say, that you're mad about but never express, sometimes come out, all at once. We all have these terrible moments. That's just part of being human.”
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“The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.”
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“I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.”
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“People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life. That's part of life, it's a pretty big part of life, but it's not all of life.”
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“A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.”
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“Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.”
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“I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.”
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“I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.”
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“I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.”
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“I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.”
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“In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.”
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“I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.”
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“I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.”
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“There are people who like short movies, and I think they should just watch our movies on DVD because they can pause, go to the bathroom, eat dinner, and come back to it.”
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“Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.”
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“It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.”
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“I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.”
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