I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.
Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
Thank God for Stifler's mom. I don't know if life would be this fun if I didn't have that.
Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?
In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'
Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.
Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are two of my favorite actors.
I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'
I think 'American Pie' is great.
Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.
One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.
I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.
What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
