I apologize for the song 'Everything Is Awesome.'
Seriously, if 'Superbad' doesn't happen, I don't think 'Jump Street' ever happens.
In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.
There have been funny sequels, but I don't know if there have been that many that feel like they're - you know - they're just as great a movie to watch, just as fun an experience but different.
I'm a big 'Omega Man' fan because of how insane he seems, just driving around in that car really fast. It has, like, a very strange tone to it.
We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.
Batman is the ultimate in white people problems. It's like, 'Oh, I'm so rich and handsome, and women like me, and... something about my parents!'
The hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where you can sense the human hand in it.
That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.
I don't want to fail by being conservative; I want to fail by doing something no one has ever done.
Having to top yourself is a good problem to have.
'Zorn' goes to some pretty ridiculous places, but the real comedy is coming from these little observations about life that are not as outlandish as some of the bigger moves in the story. This is a guy who has magical relics and fights weird monsters and is also dealing with very basic work and family things.
I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.
One of the things that has proven true in our career is that even if you take something that's as straightforward and classic as a father-son story, you can express it in a way that's totally unique to you.
You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
