Cinema Science

This is a excerpt of a Seth Rogen interview from the Guardian. (I'll have to fix the html when I get home, Safari won't allow it.)

Rogen now has five movies in the pipeline, some of them leftover voicework he snagged before this summer turned his life upside-down, but also another, Pineapple Express, based on a Rogen- Goldberg script and directed by ... "Why, indie darling David Gordon Green, of course!" laughs Rogen. The man who gave us All the Real Girls and George Washington has helmed their script about a sour pothead (Rogen) and his overfriendly dealer (Freaks/Spiderman alumnus James Franco) who go on the run after witnessing a murder. A super-violent action-movie-cum-pothead-comedy by an art-house director? "I know! When I watch it I just think, 'I can't believe they let us make this!' I can't believe people actually like it, too."

The Apatow-Rogen comedy machine is so backed up, however, that Pineapple Express, though complete, won't be seen until next summer. As a teaser, Rogen leaves me with one nugget: "I guess what Judd Apatow is to me, is what Terrence Malick is to David Gordon Green. They're just good friends. And David said to me the other day, 'Guess what Terrence Malick's favourite movie of the last 10 years is?'"

What?

"Zoolander! He knows every word, watches it every week. Which just goes to show, you never can predict these things." And Rogen shakes hands, says goodbye, swivels on his heel, and walks out into the ever-brightening limelight.