Seth Rogen

It\'s the weirdest thing. Evan [Goldberg] was just telling me how weird it is that we won\'t be working on Sausage Party, to which I said, \"Hopefully, we\'ll be working on Sausage Party 2.\" It was almost ten years ago when we came up with the idea.

We made the song a big part of the story [Sausage Party ] itself, in that it\'s kind of their prayer that they say every morning, because we found that just to have an arbitrary song felt too unrealistic within the reality of our talking food movie.

I don\'t smoke weed on set all day. I just want to say that, you know, not all day. After lunch you get tired. What can you do? To me, the fact that a character smokes weed isn\'t really what I hang my hat on necessarily.

Years and years of talking and writing versions of the [Sausage Party] and looking at various versions of the animations - I mean, it\'s really a lot of workshopping and trying different things, and using the cast to try different voices and characters. And that\'s the good thing about animation. Because it takes so long, it allows you to explore in a way that you can\'t in live-action movies.

We [with Judd Apatow] started talking about ideas and he said, \'Well, I\'m going to do this movie Knocked Up with Seth [Rogen], but after that you guys should do a movie together.\' I read it and thought that it was very funny.

We originally actually wrote Franco\'s part [in the Pineapple Express] for me and the part I ultimately played just for someone else in general. Then when we got Franco involved we thought it was a good idea to switch the roles. I think it worked really well.

They [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] thought of this brilliant pot, or whatever, movie [Pineapple Express], an action movie and I guess they figured in a small role for a blonde. And they say that I did my part well. I added tears to the movie.

I read the [ of \'Steve Jobs\' movie ], and it was very, very good. I wasn\'t sure they would want me to be in the movie, but I auditioned for it. Which I hadn\'t done in a few years. But I had auditioned in the previous few years for another movie that I did not get the part. And so my track record wasn\'t good. But I really wanted to audition because I was worried that I was going to blow it, and I wanted it to be on them for choosing me.

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

It\'s just kind of seemed like a funny way to explore action movies, I guess. I mean, I\'m a big fan of them always. It\'s always people who are very equipped to deal with the situations that they\'re thrown in. So, the notion just seemed funny, because it\'s, like, basically stoners are kind of the last guys in the world who are equipped to deal with that. And the humor possibilities just seemed somewhat endless.

It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you\'re doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it\'s on Saturday nights at 8 and there\'s no promotion for it, it\'s not really hard to guess why no one\'s watching it. And when you\'re doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it\'s not that hard to piece together why that\'s not the most important thing on the radar.

We were really fortunate to work [on Pineapple Express] with a studio that was really supportive of these guys. It was before Superbad and Knocked Up had even come out, but everyone just felt really great about them and the energy surrounding Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] and Judd [Apatow] - all of these guys - and the idea of getting Franco back into comedy as well.

Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that\'s more relevant?

I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don\'t know if you\'re familiar with \"Karate Kid,\" but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they\'re, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that\'s what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.

We kind of have some ideas for sequels. The movie [Sausage Party] ends in a way that implies a next chapter.

We don\'t have any changes in the movie [Pineapple Express] and so picking the right outfit was fairly important. So I wasn\'t a fan of the Guatemalan pants, but I was convinced that I should wear that. Then the T-shirt is a special creation by David Gordon Green. It\'s a kitten sitting in a shark\'s mouth, but he\'s happy about it.

Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I\'m always quicker to blame other people.

I watched a lot of pot movies before we did this [Pineapple Express]. My favorites were always the characters in movies that weren\'t necessarily in stoner movies.

I think I was just so ecstatic that I was working, and then as it went on, you know, I started to really appreciate that it [\"Freaks and Geeks\"] was good and that we were doing something a little different and that, you know, everyone was really cool to work with and that it was really talented group of people, and it was just when I was realizing that, that it got canceled.

It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work that I had done and giving actors a lot of freedom and doing a lot of improvisation and a total respect and collaboration with all the department heads and all the crews, and just really making it an enjoyable industry rather than just clocking in and doing a job which a lot of movies are.

I would only date a 15 year old high school girl.

We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We\'re big fans of like Shane Black movies, when we were younger - me and Evan [Goldberg].

[I like] Die Hard and Paul Verhoeven movies. S - t like that.

The original idea [ of the Pineapple Express] came from Judd [Apatow] actually. He just kind of had the loose notion of like, \'What about a weed action movie?\'.

I don\'t think that any scene [in Pineapple Express] is word for word how you\'d find it in the . Some of it was much more loose than others. The last scene with me, Danny [McBride] and James [Franko] in the diner - there was never even a for that scene. Usually we write something, but for that scene we literally wrote nothing.

When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor, you know? I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior... And I haven\'t moved one step forward since.

I think that, honestly, people\'s censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there\'s a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child\'s mentality.

[ I watched ] Spicoli in Fast Times, which isn\'t exactly a stoner movie, or The Big Lebowski, which I think is more than a stoner movie or Brad Pitt in True Romance.

I did meet Steve Wozniak on several occasions leading up to the filming of the movie. It wasn't really written how he is. So the second I met him, it almost was a relief, because I was like, \"OK, good, the real Steve Wozniak is like one of the least confrontational people you would ever meet in your entire life.\"

One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you\'re driving after it\'s been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that\'s - I can\'t count how many movies I\'ve seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck.