“I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveI BelieveComedyDeserveTreatsPlotDevicesArtificialJam Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.” PeopleTwoFightingFunForgetComedy Author:Nicholas Stoller
“And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And that guy you were watching was this guy Murray Miller, who's actually not an actor, he's a writer that Rodney and I are friends with. He's just crazily funny, especially when hitting on people.” PeopleKindLittlesSometimesEyeGuyActorsMovementAll KindsPostsHittingThis GuyThat GuyNoticing Author: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 did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanTalkingYou Think You Know Author: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 people can think what they think about it, but I'm very happy with what we did. I'm really proud of whatever all the actors what we all kind of accomplished and so regardless of how well it does or whatever I'm very excited about it and I think we set out to do the thing and accomplished what we wanted to do. Our goal was met, so yeah.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindDoeSaidWantedActorsGoalProudMetsYeahExcitedAll KindsAccomplishedReviewsVery HappyLike Love Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHeartKindMeanMadeBigsWantedTurnsGoalAudienceComedyRocksMaterialsSurpriseExcitedReactionsHopefullyExtrasRock And RollHaving HopeRoad Trip Author:Nicholas Stoller
“And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.” PeopleKnowsTwoFeelingsBigsRunningActionWantedRoomsTalkingPiecesSceneComfortableSittingCamerasYeahCrowds Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveI CanWantedSchoolRememberReadingStuffCan DoComedyCollegeLike YouHigh SchoolFirst TimeMagazinesSatireBrooksDaveBelieve You CanPythonSnlMonty Author: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 and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love.” PeopleThinkingSaidCuttingTestsFinalsSequence Author: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 people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.” PeopleMeanWholeStuffMaterialsSceneJokesExtrasReviewsSequenceTrailers Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.” PeopleWantKindImportantWantedAskingOriginalsYeahToneManhattanJasonMuppetCameosCapers Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is an origin story, certainly, but it's not like the movie ends and somebody stretches. It happens pretty quickly and I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but I think when people see that first hint, they'll be pretty excited about it.” PeopleThinkingFirstsEndsStoriesHappensRaceYeahExcitedNot SureHints Author: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 someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.” PeopleWritingHandsTermWrittenCrazyDirect Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.” PeopleFeelsWritingLuckyDirectSatisfiedFacets Author:Nicholas Stoller
“All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.” PeopleInvolvedAnimationAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Nicholas Stoller
