“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.” FirstsDoneTogetherRolesClearHbo Author:Greg Mottola
“When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like Seth Rogen, who was 9 years old or something. It was just a ridiculous amount of talented young people. I started to think I'd like to see a young-love movie, but not one done in that glossy, Hollywood, high-concept manner we've become accustomed to. One that was, for lack of a better way of putting it, a little more ambiguous, '70s-style, where everyone was flawed, middle-class characters.” PeopleThinkingDoneCharacterRidiculousFlawedAmbiguous Author:Greg Mottola
“I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poorly, it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs."” HeartDoneGoldScaryBrilliantPetMiddle ClassVillainSentimentalJust SayingPeevesPet Peeve Author:Greg Mottola
“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 the limitations are.” DoneGladLimitation Author:Greg Mottola
