I guess what Judd Apatow is to me, is what Terrence Malick is to David Gordon Green. They`re just good friends.

I couldn`t say enough great things about him. He`s the reason I`m not a homeless crack-head right now. - on Judd Apatow

My mom`s a social worker and my dad works in non-profit organizations. But they seem very radical in American terms, embracing a form of socialism that really doesn`t even exist here. I mean, where I come from, communism is not a terrible word.

It shocks me that 90210 and Superbad are technically considered part of the same genre. It was as much TV shows as movies that made us feel under-represented. No part of me watched 90210 and thought, `Yeah! that`s what my life is like!` It seemed like a different planet. I mean, I like shitty movies as much as the next guy, I`m not a snob, but things like that had no guys like us in it - that was the point.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I`d ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

On writing and starring in The Green Hornet: Nerds love complaining. You go to Ain`t It Cool News, and everybody complains about everything. They could find out Jesus Christ was making a movie with Frank Miller, and they`d say, `That`s a terrible combination!