Todd Phillips quotes

Todd Phillips is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for his work in comedy and drama. His films include iconic titles such as "The Hangover" trilogy and "Joker." He has received critical acclaim and major awards nominations for his unique directorial vision. Here are 30 of his quotes:

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.'

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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.

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

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

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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.

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You're only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it's Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I'm not comparing myself to those guys, but you learn more from the misses than the hits.

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My dog's a gentleman.

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

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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.

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

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

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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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I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Hangover,' but I'd love to. If I did it it'd star Juliette Lewis, because she's the funniest woman in the world. She's my favorite actress on the planet. If we did a character-based comedy about women, I don't see it out of my range.

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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 feeling that anything could happen.

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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.

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Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

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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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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.

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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.

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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!

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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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