Todd Phillips
Todd Phillips
Todd Phillips, also known as Todd Bunzl, is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for writing and directing Bittersweet Motel, Road Trip, Old School, The Hangover Trilogy and Due Date. He also produced the 2012 black comedy film Project X...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 December 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I know Doug pretty well. I think we both got pretty lucky. Everybody was (unhappy with the drawing format), but two teams with a combined four wins were pretty happy. And from our point of view, we've actually been playing pretty well.
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In the second half, we knew we had to come out and take better shots, drive to the basket ?cause it was hard for them to guard us straight up, man-to-man. So we took advantage of it.
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I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's where I have a deal. That's where I've been for years. So I don't really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don't necessarily read scripts from other studios.
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I'm not a huge fan of 3-D, though. Honestly, I think that movies are an immersive experience and an audience experience. There's nothing like seeing a film with 500 people in a theater. And there's something about putting on 3-D glasses that makes it a very singular experience for me. Suddenly I'm not connected to the audience anymore.
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I knew that it was special. That feeling was in the air, maybe it was just in our heads. From the first song, the crowd just went ape shit.
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I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.
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That record changed everything. I don't know how aware of that we were at the time. I guess later we realized that.
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Each of us had to find a role to play. That's what evolved out of the hours and hours of hard work. We designed a way to have a five-way conversation. It was a lot of hard work but it all came kind of naturally.
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A little bit nuts, a little too intense.
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It's different because you don't have anyone to look up to see how to do things. You gotta make everything new ourselves.
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Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.
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I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
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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.
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You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are just concentrating on 'ok, let's worry about just comedy today,' and there are days when you're like 'you know what, we gotta just beef up the story.'. But, it's not like process wise it's that technically separate. One informs the other, so they kinda all happen together ideally.