Quotes by Todd Phillips

About Todd Phillips:

Todd Phillips is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for writing and directing Road Trip, Old School, The Hangover film series and Due Date. He also produced the 2012 black comedy film Project X.
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There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

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I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

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I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.

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The worst thing you can do as a comedy director is be on set and think of something ridiculous, or an actor comes up to you with something ridiculous, and you say 'No, no that's too much.' Let's not worry if that's too much, let's shoot it, and then ...

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'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

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Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

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Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make w...

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Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

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You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

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I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

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I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

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It's heartbreaking when you hear a kid buying a ticket for... I don't know, whatever movie you're up against. And you see them sneaking into your film. It's just heartbreaking. But in the spirit of full disclosure, that is what I did as an 11-year-ol...

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I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a ...

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I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

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When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

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With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.

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I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just...

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I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experien...

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I'm not a huge fan of 3-D, though. Honestly, I think that movies are an immersive experience and an audience experience. There's nothing like seeing a film with 500 people in a theater. And there's something about putting on 3-D glasses that makes it...

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Author Bio

  • NameTodd Phillips
  • DescriptionAmerican actor and comedian
  • BornDecember 20, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Producer; Film Director; Writer; Actor