I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.