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I'm a big hip hop fan.
I've never been into just really silly stuff.
I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy.
New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'
I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.
I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.
The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.
Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.
Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.
Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.
If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.
I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.
When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.
Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.
Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.
I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.
I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.
I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.
I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.
I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.
You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.
I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.
I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.
I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."
I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.
It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.
Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
If I ever over hear people saying I give off an 'Ed Harris type of sexy vibe.' I'll be pretty psyched.
I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.
Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.
I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.
The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.
I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.
I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.
The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.
I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.
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.
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.
Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?
I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.
You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.
Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.