H. I. Phillips Quotes

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!

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.

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

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

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

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

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

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.

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

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.

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

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

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.

My dog's a gentleman.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

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

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

I'm not worried about young people seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it.

Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.

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 don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

Subject has the variety of life.

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.

It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

Hearts are stronger than swords.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

Never forgive at the ballot box!

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.