20 Quotes by Seth Gordon

People who can't afford their mortgages and have to renegotiate with the bank or something gets repossessed after you worked your whole life. You follow the rules and you do the right thing and you still get screwed. That's what I think a lot of Americans are.

I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.