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you spend the money on is time to spend [creating] more options. What if something's not funny? The worst thing as a director is to be in the editing room and the joke doesn't work and you have no other options for it. You're screwed."

The system seemed to work. "My theory is, you're never going to be the only person who has a good idea," Hill continues. "Anyone else could have away better idea than you in the room, and it only makes you look better. It only makes Seth and Evan look like better writers if we improvise a funny line. I think everyone has that theory, because there's no ego. Like, who cares? Whatever's funny will wind up in the movie."

Cera is quick to note that the script has to be -- and was -- funny to begin with, though. Coming from a heavily-plotted TV show, he said things weren't necessarily too different. "This was a really well-written script too," he clarifies. "It wasn't like an outline, where there would just be a scene idea. There were very well-written jokes and lines. If we were improvising at all it was just to make things seem more natural, to punch it up."

Another great thing about the movie, according to the three, is the female characters. In most high school movies about guys, the female characters are treated as merely objects of desire, and at first glance, Superbad does that too. "I would actually disagree with that," Hill says, noting that the movie has actually been testing highest with young women. "The female characters in the movie are by far and away the smartest characters in the movie. They're way more mature and smart than we are. I think the whole point of the movie is that, if we had asked them out in the first ten minutes, they probably would have said yes. We would have been able to avoid this whole thing. They all seem way more mature and intelligent to me, and not typical girls you would see in a teen movie. They're not bubblehead cheerleaders. They feel like girls that I knew growing up."

All three leads, like most other people their age, have favorite movies that they constantly quote to each other. "The funny thing is, now that Superbad has come out it will be ridiculous when I quote things from that, but we kind of do quote to each other. I quote Chris's lines. Like 'I've got a boner.' I say that all the time."

"One of the funniest lines in cinema," Cera adds.

Somebody asks him if people ever come up to him with quotes from Arrested Development, and he says he doesn't actually get that a lot. "I make one quote always, and I always see you get uncomfortable when I say it," Hill tells him. "'There's always money in the banana stand.'"

"Oh yeah, I have heard you ...

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