[on editing] And that’s one of the toughest things about writing, shooting, and directing a film, is you end up with these orphans and you fucking love them and you think they’d be amazing scenes and do these amazing things but the film is a dictatorship (laughs), not a democracy, and just because something’s cool and charismatic doesn’t mean it gets to survive in the final cut. The flow of the movie is the highest master. [2016]
Category: happy birthday
Happy Birthday: Jason Segel
{On his full-frontal performance in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)] I drank a lot to get me through that. I remember just pacing up and down, drunk, with these voices in my head saying, “Jason, what are you doing?” I’m a little nervous, I won’t get a date anymore, they won’t be satisfied with what they saw.
