American - Director | July 11, 1964 -
I specialize in movies that people say are underrated, with the exception of 'Superbad.'
Greg Mottola
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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.
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To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.
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My own personal geek culture years were when I was much younger. I collected comic books up until a certain age. I wanted to be a comic book artist when I was younger.
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I'm not someone who's gone to Comic Con as a devotee.
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I'm the most awkward man alive.
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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.
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In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
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Having grown up in a Catholic family, while I felt like I was never conscious of any blatant anti-Semitism, I was aware of a slightly insidious, us-versus-them mentality. A lot of my best friends and early girlfriends were Jewish, and I encountered what was more of a suburban small-mindedness, of people needing to defend their tribe.
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The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
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I worked for seven years doing computer graphics to pay my way through graduate school - I have no romance with computer work. There's no amount of phony graphics and things making sound effects on the screen that can change that.
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I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.
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