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...
conscious
My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.
thinking worry people
You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!
thinking directors tools
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 music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.
writing nyu cheesy
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.
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.