Todd Phillips Quotes

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.

Every Weekend In History Has Worked For Movies If The Movie Connects.

I'm Not Worried About Young People Seeing An Opportunity And Taking Advantage Of It.

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, So Much Of It Is About What You Pull From Life, And This Sounds Sort Of Cheesy, But I Felt Like I Didn't Have Enough Life Experience At That Point To Write A Movie.

I Think Reviewers Have Become Particularly Venomous Because, In A Way, The Power Has Been Sucked From Them. A 15-year-old Can Write A Review On The Internet And It Means As Much As Roger Ebert's Review, And That Just Makes Roger Ebert Mad, So He Comes Out Harder And Stronger.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Never Had A Ton Of Male Friends And It's Always Been Something That's Really Interesting To Me, What Brings Guys Together? The Bonding. 'old School' Is A Good Example Of That. And Even 'starsky' And Even 'road Trip.'

John Goodman's Pretty Dark - I Love John Goodman.