Greg Mottola

Director

1964-07-11

Quotes by Greg Mottola

• 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.

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• I specialize in movies that people say are underrated, with the exception of 'Superbad.'

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• 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.

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• 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.'

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