Will Phillips

Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
audience
I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.
feelings roles danger
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.
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.
home adventure missing
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
writing character past
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.