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"Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture."
"I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one."
"One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges."
"I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal."
"I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally."
"I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one."
"I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy."
"I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life."
"I would never remake something that was like "The Godfather." Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever."
"Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie."
"I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice."
"There are a lot of things going into making a movie. So many things can go wrong. So many people that need to show up and bring their "A" game. If one thing is out of place, the whole movie can fall apart."
"Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work again, even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along. But for me, I freak out - because I'm a bit of a workaholic - the second I finish a movie going oh my god, what am I going to do, but I can start writing the next day so it doesn't force me to make a bad choice acting-wise."
"The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones."
"When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says.""
"In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people."
"As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama."
"I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words."
"When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know."
"I'm a big hip hop fan."