The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise. Nicholas Stoller More Quotes by Nicholas Stoller More Quotes From 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 are, that kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got interested in comedy writing at an early like reading like Dave Barry. Nicholas Stoller crazy reading writing 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. Nicholas Stoller running talking two 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. Nicholas Stoller heart mean thinking 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. Nicholas Stoller lucky writing people 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. Nicholas Stoller crazy writing hands 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. Nicholas Stoller race people thinking It's all in L.A. There might be some location shooting as well. I think it's pretty short. I heard it was like six to eight weeks, which is pretty short. But you don't have to do makeup or anything. There's no hair, there's no makeup, there's like one trailer for Jason and one for the actors who do cameos. It's quick. So that's what they're saying. I don't know if that will change. Nicholas Stoller makeup eight thinking I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains. Nicholas Stoller i-think best think romantic I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy. Nicholas Stoller nothing great comedy romantic As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke. Nicholas Stoller day comedy style i-can I mean, come on: At the end of the day, we're all bisexual. A hundred years from now, there's not gonna be gay or straight. There's gonna be everything. Nicholas Stoller end-of-the-day end day gay When the photographer is nearby, I like to say, 'Quick, get a photo of me looking into the camera,' because I'm never looking into the camera. Christopher Nolan looks into the camera, but I think most directors don't, so whenever you see a picture of a director looking at the camera, it's fake. Nicholas Stoller picture looking me you The movies I've made, I'm really proud of them. But the experience I've had is, people say to me, 'Oh my God, I saw your movie on HBO. It was actually funny.' Like, that's always the experience. It's a backhanded compliment. Nicholas Stoller me experience god funny There are so few good comedy sequels. The only one in recent memory that's good is '22 Jump Street.' It's a hard genre. Nicholas Stoller street memory good comedy Each of the 'Toy Story's are telling an emotional story, but they're comedic. They're so successful creatively in terms of the stories they're telling. And they're pretty grounded. Nicholas Stoller pretty story emotional successful I've thrown way more movie parties than real parties. My real life is so much more boring. Nicholas Stoller boring real life way Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK. Nicholas Stoller your earth happy baby It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them. Nicholas Stoller meet weird judge dark I would never make a purely autobiographical movie, because it would be incredibly boring. But I always bring something. It's usually some emotional truth I've experienced, like in 'Get Him to the Greek,' the relationship between Jonah Hill and Elisabeth Moss, I had certainly had that kind of relationship with a girlfriend. Nicholas Stoller never hill truth relationship I watched all kinds of dirty movies as a kid. My parents were very liberal about that, and I was still an uber-nerd who never drank or did drugs. I don't think it matters. Nicholas Stoller movies parents never think