Top 38 Quotes by Greg Mottola

About Greg Mottola

These are some quotes by American author Greg Mottola Director, who was born on July 11, 1964.

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

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 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.

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 think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

Greg Mottola

Film school didn't prepare me for the fact that you have to manage so many different personalities at every stage, and I learned nothing about what to do when a movie was finished.

Film school didn't prepare me for the fact that you have to manage so many different personalities at every stage, and I learned nothing about what to do when a movie was finished.

Greg Mottola

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

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

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