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I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

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Todd Phillips
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 20
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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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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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When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.
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You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.
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I'm not worried about young people seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it.
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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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I love confidence in a guy. I don't have it, but there's nothing sexier.
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It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.
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To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.
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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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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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When you work on a movie or a TV show, you're a family, so if something that's a two-minute thing in the movie is causing a rift in the family, you also have to think about at what point do you fight this, and at what point is this rift worth having in this very small, very tight group of people who are just there to make something great and funny.
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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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I really got into filmmaking through photography.
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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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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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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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It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
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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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I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.
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