Justin Zackham Quotes

I saw 'Animal House' in the theater the night before I left for college. And for better or worse, it made an impression. Within a week, I was in a fraternity myself.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

I went to UGA for a quarter. One quarter of my extended university life. I enjoyed it. UGA was a blast. I crashed all the frat parties, dressing like a frat boy, acting like I was one of them. I had too much fun. So I had a good time for the quarter that I was a Bulldog. Go Bulldogs!

In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.

And I don't know what I'd do at a fraternity party. All that might be a little lost on me.

I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy.

I never went to college, so I've never actually met a frat guy.

I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.

I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.

I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.

How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.

'Veerey Ki Wedding' is a comedy of errors in more ways than one. It's one of those basic, perky comedies. We're not trying to give out a message or anything.

Yo! Cam!” Beer Guy jumped off the porch and jogged down the sidewalk, passing me a quick look. “What you up to, man?” Saved by the frat boy. Cam’s gaze didn’t veer from me, but his grin started to slip. “Nothing, Kevin, just trying to have a conversation.

I've got people who like Tommy Boy, but they're getting older and there's a whole new wave of college kids who see that and Joe Dirt, and Just Shoot Me is a little older, so I wanted stuff for everybody.

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

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

I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. I tried with two little parts in comedies that were more mainstream, I was kind of fumbling around, and then I read The Brothers Bloom and knew it was the one I wanted to jump into. Did it take adjusting? Actually, it's not really any different from doing drama.

Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.

Why even moon a sorority girl if they can't see the swingy egg bag part of it?

"The Big Lebowski" is a real masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose I'm a bit biased because I'm in it.

In "Superbad," I carry a gun, but I didn't get to shoot it that much.

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.