Todd Phillips Quotes

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.

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

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

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

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.

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.

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'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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.