Top 35 Todd Phillips Quotes (2024 Update)

Todd Phillips Quote: “Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.”

1. “Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “It’s all about escapism. That’s essentially what all movies are about. It’s a vicarious thrill.”

2. “It’s all about escapism. That’s essentially what all movies are about. It’s a vicarious thrill.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.”

3. “You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.”

4. “To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “There’s a darkness under ‘The Hangover’ because ultimately there’s a missing person and it’s not really that funny. There’s a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in ‘Old School.’”

5. “There’s a darkness under ‘The Hangover’ because ultimately there’s a missing person and it’s not really that funny. There’s a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in ‘Old School.’”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “I was taught that you didn’t want to be part of the group – that it was better to do your own thing.”

6. “I was taught that you didn’t want to be part of the group – that it was better to do your own thing.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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!”

8. “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!”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Todd Phillips Quote: “I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it’s a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.”

10. “I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it’s a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “My dog’s a gentleman.”

11. “My dog’s a gentleman.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.”

12. “I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “I love confidence in a guy. I don’t have it, but there’s nothing sexier.”

14. “I love confidence in a guy. I don’t have it, but there’s nothing sexier.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “There’s such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they’re just so much warmer with each other. But there’s this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there’s a standoffishness.”

17. “There’s such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they’re just so much warmer with each other. But there’s this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there’s a standoffishness.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “Reality television hasn’t killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.”

19. “Reality television hasn’t killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “I really got into filmmaking through photography.”

20. “I really got into filmmaking through photography.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.’”

22. “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.’”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it’s one of the most effective.”

23. “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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Todd Phillips Quote: “All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.”

24. “All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it’s a quiet job and people don’t really understand it.”

25. “Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it’s a quiet job and people don’t really understand it.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “John Goodman’s pretty dark – I love John Goodman.”

26. “John Goodman’s pretty dark – I love John Goodman.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “Not every movie has to serve as every audience member’s need for completion.”

27. “Not every movie has to serve as every audience member’s need for completion.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “When I was younger I was obsessed with ‘Star 80,’ and it’s just a great movie – I think I saw it three times in the theater.”

29. “When I was younger I was obsessed with ‘Star 80,’ and it’s just a great movie – I think I saw it three times in the theater.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I’ve always liked bad behavior, I’m a fan of bad behavior, and I don’t think you have to justify bad behavior.”

31. “I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I’ve always liked bad behavior, I’m a fan of bad behavior, and I don’t think you have to justify bad behavior.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.”

32. “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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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

33. “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.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “I don’t have a horror film in me just because I don’t like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.”

34. “I don’t have a horror film in me just because I don’t like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.”

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Todd Phillips Quote: “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.”

35. “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.”

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