I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not a schematic movie. For better or wo…

- Greg Mottola

We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that …

- Greg Mottola

I think Stanley Tucci was having an affair with his mother. He had this odd quality that I haven't seen him ever get to do again in a movie that just…

- Greg Mottola

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

- Greg Mottola

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

- Greg Mottola

I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon us to make men ou…

- Greg Mottola

I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the Mall Of America. Then the obvious fact …

- Greg Mottola

Believe me, there is a ton of stuff we shot on Superbad that was unusable, because people were just riffing and riffing. It's just part of the Judd A…

- 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.

- Greg Mottola