Quotes by Todd Phillips

Todd Phillips

All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.

Ability

Littles

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it’s funny. You’re just sitting there like, ‘Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?’ It’s such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

People

Thinking

Twilight

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.

Documentaries

Drama

Scared

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 fun, kind of creating this little family.

Actors

Creating

Fun

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

Film

Looks

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 feeling that anything could happen.

Comic

Feelings

Roles

I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I’d just been working with Zach Galifianakis on ‘The Hangover’, and I was thinking, I’ve got to find something to do with this guy immediately.

Guy

Hangover

Thinking

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Filmmaking

Photography

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 experience at that point to write a movie.

Cheesy

Nyu

Writing

I take it very seriously, music. I think it’s one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

Directors

Thinking

Tools

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Goodman

Groups

Guy

Hangover

Kissing

Landscape

Lasts

Littles

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Mayhem

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Mom

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Nice

Nyu

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People

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Reality

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Quotes by Todd Phillips

Todd Phillips

All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.

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.

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 fun, kind of creating this little family.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

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 feeling that anything could happen.

I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I’d just been working with Zach Galifianakis on ‘The Hangover’, and I was thinking, I’ve got to find something to do with this guy immediately.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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 experience at that point to write a movie.

I take it very seriously, music. I think it’s one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

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