MAGAZINE: Seth Rogen | COMPLEX

Seth Rogen is covering COMPLEX magazine’s February/March 2011 issue. Check out excerpts of interview, full spread and behind the scenes video of his cover shoot here, which is based around his new move “The Green Hornet”:

COMPLEX: How does engagement change a relationship?

It means your girlfriend stops bugging you to get engaged!

Up until now, you’ve done films with modest budgets. During those projects you must have become somewhat of a businessman. Does the pressure of the budget on a 3-D action film like this change your process at all?

A little bit, I guess. As a filmmaker, I believe in fiscal responsibility—to a degree. I would never make a movie as weird as Pineapple Express for the amount of money that this movie costs, for example. [Laughs.] I just know that that’s not a good idea. There’s just inherently some things in some of our movies that will make a lot of people not want to go see them, you know? And we very consciously had to balance those things in a movie of this scale or it would have just been irresponsible. I don’t want to be the guy that makes the weirdest fucking movie ever, and then when it doesn’t make any money, I’m like, “What? I can’t believe no one liked it!”

Speaking of which, tangentially, how did you come to know KAWS?

A lot of my friends in high school were into graffiti and underground hip-hop magazines, and I remember seeing the Calvin Klein ads and stuff that he did, and I just thought it was amazing. It was such a cool way to approach that kind of thing, which was not to vandalize it, but to improve it. And ever since then, I’ve kept up with him and collected. I probably have almost every single figure he’s ever made. And I just got his book. He sent it to me signed, which was fucking awesome.

Check out the full interview here.

Source: Complex.com