The frustrations and joys of parenthood are just hard to understand until you have a kid... the constant fight you're having with yourself, like loving being with your kid but also being kind of bored and wanting to look at your iPhone - it's kind of an interesting thing that's hard to write about before you've experienced it.

Nicholas Stoller

The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social interaction I've had since then has been a million times easier. Literally, ever since then, it's all been child's play.

Nicholas Stoller

I'm pretty old-fashioned. I feel most people - and this is purely from observation; I'm not an expert - but I think most people want to get married, whatever one might say about the institution of marriage, especially if you are in a long relationship.

Nicholas Stoller

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

Nicholas Stoller

Each of the 'Toy Story's are telling an emotional story, but they're comedic. They're so successful creatively in terms of the stories they're telling. And they're pretty grounded.

Nicholas Stoller

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.

Nicholas Stoller

The worst thing you can do is animate something and then throw it out because it doesn't work story-wise.

Nicholas Stoller

A good romantic comedy is my favorite movie to watch.

Nicholas Stoller

I mean, come on: At the end of the day, we're all bisexual. A hundred years from now, there's not gonna be gay or straight. There's gonna be everything.

Nicholas Stoller

It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.

Nicholas Stoller

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

Nicholas Stoller

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

Nicholas Stoller

I've always had as many friends who are women as friends who are guys.

Nicholas Stoller

You just never know with movies how they'll be seen in a few years. You have no idea. Like, movies that were super popular when they came out have been forgotten. And other movies - and I put 'Sarah Marshall' in this - kind of weirdly stand the test of time a little bit.

Nicholas Stoller

I love watching how people who are in love with each other deal with each other. Every time I've had a fight with an ex-girlfriend, at the time they're horrible, but when I look back they're often funny and weird, and that kind of stuff makes me laugh.

Nicholas Stoller

My family is really into politics.

Nicholas Stoller

The two times I had nervous breakdowns in my life were when I graduated from college and had my first kid.

Nicholas Stoller

I would never make a purely autobiographical movie, because it would be incredibly boring. But I always bring something. It's usually some emotional truth I've experienced, like in 'Get Him to the Greek,' the relationship between Jonah Hill and Elisabeth Moss, I had certainly had that kind of relationship with a girlfriend.

Nicholas Stoller

If you're engaged more than a year, there's something up. There's lot of debate as to whether one should or shouldn't get married, but when you get engaged, it's a promise to get married, and if you don't just do it within a year, one of the parties is using the excuse of, like, 'I can't find the right venue' to put off the wedding.

Nicholas Stoller

The movies I've made, I'm really proud of them. But the experience I've had is, people say to me, 'Oh my God, I saw your movie on HBO. It was actually funny.' Like, that's always the experience. It's a backhanded compliment.

Nicholas Stoller

I've thrown way more movie parties than real parties. My real life is so much more boring.

Nicholas Stoller