I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
When you watch the first 'American Pie' movie, you're like... 'I know that jock who's kind of sweet and has a girlfriend, and I know that weird off-beat kid.'
When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.
If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.
One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Harold & Kumar' movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer.
There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
