I think around that time I met David [Gordon Green] or, well, we all met at Superbad and Judd [Apatow] said, 'I'm thinking about having him direct [ Knocked Up].' Sounded like a good idea.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes.

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

To love is to open the window of our heart for all the beauty of the world to come in and dance with joy within our soul.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.