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
hangover thinking littles
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.
twilight thinking laughing
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.
weekend
Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.
want tone film
You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.
las-vegas decision sound
Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.
jobs people directors
Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.
new-york mean las-vegas
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 doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.
littles ability
All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.
taught groups want
I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.
fun creating actors
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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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.
audience connected experience fan huge movies people putting seeing singular suddenly
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.
ape crowd feeling knew maybe
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.
mean writing thinking
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.