Phil Lord

Male relationships are deeply emotional and hard to talk about.

— Phil Lord

You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.

— Phil Lord

Having to top yourself is a good problem to have.

— Phil Lord

We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.

— Phil Lord

I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.

— Phil Lord

I think we're going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will…

— Phil Lord

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

— Phil Lord

Seriously, if 'Superbad' doesn't happen, I don't think 'Jump Street' ever happens.

— Phil Lord

We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.

— Phil Lord

You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret…

— Phil Lord

I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty,…

— Phil Lord

That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'

— Phil Lord

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

— Phil Lord

I apologize for the song 'Everything Is Awesome.'

— Phil Lord

Batman is the ultimate in white people problems. It's like, 'Oh, I'm so rich and handsome, and women like me, and... something…

— Phil Lord

It was kind of fun to make 'Cloudy,' which has such a stylized look, and then do 'LEGO,' which, while it's stylized,…

— Phil Lord

I wish I could remember people's names. I'm supposed to remember so many.

— Phil Lord

I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off…

— Phil Lord

You can't play not to lose. You kind of have to put your ego aside and accept the fact that careers are…

— Phil Lord

A sense of humour is never a handicap.

— Phil Lord

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

— Phil Lord

The hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where…

— Phil Lord

That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.

— Phil Lord

We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.

— Phil Lord

I'm a big 'Omega Man' fan because of how insane he seems, just driving around in that car really fast. It has,…

— Phil Lord