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
kissing bye guy
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.
hangover school laughing
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.'
photography filmmaking
I really got into filmmaking through photography.
issues guy missing
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.
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.
needs members audience
Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.
dog gentleman my-dog
My dog's a gentleman.
want tone film
You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.
sometimes mayhem
To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.
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Where teams score on us is when they score easy baskets. (Wheat is) very talented with the ball in his hands, but we're trying to bring him along in his mind. These kids are all we've got and they're going to keep giving effort and heart. Maybe the learning on the fly will translate into some rapid growth.
specific
When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.
bitter love movies people sites tone
There are movie sites that love movies and there are movie sites that are just bitter people that just hate movies. I find Movieline to be in the latter. The tone is bizarrely hateful.
roof
'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.
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Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before.