Todd Phillips's biography
Todd Phillips is 52 years old screenwriter born at Brooklyn. He was born on Sunday 20th of December 1970. According to year of birth 1970 he belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 20th of December means he is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fiery sign of Zodiac Belt. These people are highly learned and love to gain knowledge throughout their life.
He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be screenwriter. You can know him also as film producer, film director, writer, actor. He is recently known as film actor.
Todd Phillips's schools
We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Detailed informations about his schools
- Attended NYU Film School but dropped out before graduation to promote his first documentary Hated: GG Allin & the Murder Junkies (1993).
- Attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts with Andrew Gurland.
Todd Phillips's career
His main focus is to be screenwriter. He is famous thanks to Joker.
Awards and competitions
Todd Phillips's Nominations
- He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
What Todd Phillips has done for a first time
- Attended NYU Film School but dropped out before graduation to promote his first documentary Hated: GG Allin & the Murder Junkies (1993).
- He is the first director to receive an Oscar nomination for directing a comic book film.
Todd Phillips's quotes
- 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!
- There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.
- I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'
- Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.
- Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.
- 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.'
- It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
- I really got into filmmaking through photography.
- Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.
- My dog's a gentleman.
- I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.
- 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.
- All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.
- I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.
- 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.
- 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.'
- 'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.
- 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.
- I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'
- 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.
- 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.
- John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
- You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.
- 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.
- Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.
- With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Todd Phillips's body shape
Lets describe how Todd Phillips looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.