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When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I could bring to it that maybe the next guy wouldn't?' Because I've read a lot of very good scripts and thought there are people who could do this better than I.
- Greg Mottola
#Better
#Good
#Myself
#People
#Question
'Duel' is one of the greatest suspense films of all time.
- Greg Mottola
#Duel
#Films
#Greatest
#Suspense
#Time
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
#Comedy
#Drama
#Me
#Work
#World
I worry that I would actually hurt my career doing something I didn't enjoy.
- Greg Mottola
#Career
#Doing
#Enjoy
#Hurt
#Worry
I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.
- Greg Mottola
#Comedy
#Escape
#Serious
#Try
#Work
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
#Forever
#Out
#Take
#Time
#Together
I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.
- Greg Mottola
#Animals
#Only
#Passed
#Scripts
#Them
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
#Free
#Grow
#Men
#War
#World
For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.
- Greg Mottola
#Anything
#Better
#Flaws
#Human
#I Am
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
#Crazy
#Film
#Independent
#Movies
#Needs
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
#Art
#Business
#Job
#Me
#Student
I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.
- Greg Mottola
#Film
#People
#Remember
#Try
#Yourself
I'm not someone who's gone to Comic Con as a devotee.
- Greg Mottola
#Comic
#Con
#Gone
#Someone
I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.
- Greg Mottola
#I Am
#Life
#Still
#Time
#Worldview
I have alopecia. My hair fell out when I was in college and I didn't take it so well.
- Greg Mottola
#College
#Hair
#Out
#Take
#Well
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
- Greg Mottola
#Affection
#Get
#Music
#Nostalgia
#Person
I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's 'Blue Velvet.'
- Greg Mottola
#Gold
#Heart
#Movies
#Pet
#Way
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