38 Quotes by Greg Mottola

I have alopecia. My hair fell out when I was in college and I didn't take it so well.

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.

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

The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.

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.'

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

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

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.

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