Todd Phillips Quotes

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

  Todd Phillips

  Want, Tone, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

  Todd Phillips

  Hangover, School, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, People, Stuff

  "Director Todd Phillips Interview DUE DATE and THE HANGOVER 2". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 28, 2010.

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• To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

  Todd Phillips

  Sometimes, Mayhem

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Todd Phillips

  Twilight, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

  Todd Phillips

  Nice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like.

  Todd Phillips

  Real, Thinking, Dramatic

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Todd Phillips

  Groups, Want, Taught

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

  Todd Phillips

  Thrill, Vicarious, Escapism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.

  Todd Phillips

  Kissing, Bye, Guy

  Interview With Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

  Todd Phillips

  Character, Thinking, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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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 fun, kind of creating this little family.

  Todd Phillips

  Fun, Creating, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you work on a movie or a TV show, you're a family, so if something that's a two-minute thing in the movie is causing a rift in the family, you also have to think about at what point do you fight this, and at what point is this rift worth having in this very small, very tight group of people who are just there to make something great and funny.

  Todd Phillips

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• To me, the script is a living, breathing organism. Comedy is something that is ever-changing and ever-flowing with the vibe and the mood of the movie.

  Todd Phillips

  Comedy, Mood

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Todd Phillips

  Littles, Ability

  "Director Todd Phillips Talks THE HANGOVER PART III, How It’s Alan’s Story, Keeping a Dark But Realistic Tone, Shooting on Location & More from Our Set Visit". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I really got into filmmaking through photography.

  Todd Phillips

  Photography, Filmmaking

  Interveiw with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.

  Todd Phillips

  Feels, Audience

  Source: collider.com

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• It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

  Todd Phillips

  Cutting, Watches, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are just concentrating on 'ok, let's worry about just comedy today,' and there are days when you're like 'you know what, we gotta just beef up the story.'. But, it's not like process wise it's that technically separate. One informs the other, so they kinda all happen together ideally.

  Todd Phillips

  Wise, Mean, Worry

  "School for Scoundrels' Director Todd Phillips Interview". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. September 27, 2006.

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• I love confidence in a guy. I don't have it, but there's nothing sexier.

  Todd Phillips

  Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Todd Phillips

  Needs, Members, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Todd Phillips

  Jobs, People, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.

  Todd Phillips

  New York, Mean, Vegas

  Source: collider.com

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