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“All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as a movie is a terrible idea. 'The Lego Movie' sounds like a terrible idea.”
“I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made.”
“My son is the voice of The Lego Movie's Duplo alien.”
“When I was a kid on the playground, fights were about who got to play Han Solo. He's just one of the best characters ever created.”
“There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are.”
“It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.”
“With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.”
“You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.”
“I always feel like the hammer's going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.”
“The medium is less important than the story we're trying to tell and the funniest way to tell it.”
“What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy.”
“'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.”
“'South Park' movie was R. There's a place that people are not occupying, thinking that animated has to be family always, and I don't think that's true.”
“Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.”
“We just try to find stories that are interesting to us.”
“It's hard to make a movie that is both funny and emotional, that has something to say and is clear to the audience.”
“We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.”
“That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!”
“Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really hard to tell a story while also making people laugh. It's like trying to do two jobs at once.”
“Sequels are hard.”