I Feel No Sympathy For My Food.

Those Are The Movies That We [with Evan Goldberg] Always Wanted To Make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Kind Of Movies Where Violence And Comedy And Characters Kind Of Work Together Really Well.

I Was Looking To Do A Comedy And Found A Group Of Guys That Were Really Supportive Of My Interests In It, Though It Was A Little Outside Of My Wheel House. Strangely, I Visited The Set Of Knocked Up And Met Seth [rogen] And Evan [goldberg] And Judd[apatow] And Shauna [robertson].

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.

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.

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.