Jonah Quotes

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

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.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

I would never remake something that was like "The Godfather." Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2 than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it.

The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there’s a ton of high-quality things that don’t go anywhere.

I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.

You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.

Mormons know that its not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Money chases good ideas

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours, ' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.