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My first-ever job in the movie business, I was an art student at Carnegie Mellon, and they were shooting the movie 'Gung Ho' in Pittsburgh, and I worked as an extra for a few days. Michael Keaton bumped into me in one scene, and it's in the movie. And I worshipped him.

I specialize in movies that people say are underrated, with the exception of 'Superbad.'

Greg Mottola

My first-ever job in the movie business, I was an art student at Carnegie Mellon, and they were shooting the movie 'Gung Ho' in Pittsburgh, and I worked as an extra for a few days. Michael Keaton bumped into me in one scene, and it's in the movie. And I worshipped him.

Greg Mottola

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.

Greg Mottola

'Duel' is one of the greatest suspense films of all time.

Greg Mottola

'Sugarland Express' is a movie that I really loved and watched a lot.

Greg Mottola

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

Greg Mottola

I kind of thought I would only work exclusively in the world of naturalistic comedy drama, but there is this side of me that also loves Hollywood, and I wanted to see what that felt like.

Greg Mottola

I'm not someone who's gone to Comic Con as a devotee.

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 out of us, so you're kind of free to not grow up that way if you don't want to.

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To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

Greg Mottola

It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.

Greg Mottola

I'd like to think I have a strange affinity for the embarrassing. Not sure what that says about me. But I like the awkward, uncomfortable comedy.

Greg Mottola

The crazy thing about independent filmmaking is that you're so judged on your first film. It almost needs to be one of those groundbreaking 'I've-never-seen-that-before'-type movies.

Greg Mottola

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

Greg Mottola

I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.

Greg Mottola

Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.

Greg Mottola

I had always thought my fantasy career would be making indie films and doing my own thing. But then 'Superbad' came along, and it totally changed everything. It was so hilarious and smart and extreme; you could probably do a psychoanalysis term paper on the male sexual psyche going on there.

Greg Mottola

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

Greg Mottola

I like writing, but it really can be a struggle for me.

Greg Mottola

I worry that I would actually hurt my career doing something I didn't enjoy.

Greg Mottola

I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.

Greg Mottola