Todd Phillips Quotes

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• I really got into filmmaking through photography.
• All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.
• Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.
• Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.
• 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 just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.
• I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.
• It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
• John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
• My dog's a gentleman.
• Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.
• 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…
• You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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,…
• I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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