Phil Lord Quotes

Phil Lord

Profession : Producer

Birth : July 12, 1975

I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.

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As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation.

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I apologize for the song 'Everything Is Awesome.'

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I would love to wear, like, twee Wes Anderson suits everywhere and not get made fun of.

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I wish I could remember people's names. I'm supposed to remember so many.

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Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

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I think we're going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will look back and ask, 'How did it take so long for you to figure this out?'

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That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'

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A sense of humour is never a handicap.

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We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on paper, you might even avoid writing down a name, let alone if they have blonde hair or this or that, to stop.

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The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

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I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.

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It was kind of fun to make 'Cloudy,' which has such a stylized look, and then do 'LEGO,' which, while it's stylized, is also photo-real.

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We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.

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Male relationships are deeply emotional and hard to talk about.

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Seriously, if 'Superbad' doesn't happen, I don't think 'Jump Street' ever happens.

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In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

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There have been funny sequels, but I don't know if there have been that many that feel like they're - you know - they're just as great a movie to watch, just as fun an experience but different.

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I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.

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We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.

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