Todd Phillips quote: "I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you."

I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting t...
TODD PHILLIPS

I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Ha...
TODD PHILLIPS

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
TODD PHILLIPS

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude...
TODD PHILLIPS

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a ...
TODD PHILLIPS

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.
TODD PHILLIPS

You're only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it's Steven Spie...
TODD PHILLIPS

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof...
TODD PHILLIPS

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person ...
TODD PHILLIPS

Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing gr...
TODD PHILLIPS

I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when ...
TODD PHILLIPS

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could jus...
TODD PHILLIPS

I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked fro...
TODD PHILLIPS

I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's ...
TODD PHILLIPS

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
TODD BARRY

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections ...
TODD AKIN

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them pr...
TODD ENGLISH

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving c...
TODD RUNDGREN

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitariani...
TODD GITLIN

Tessa has an obsession with Target that I’ll never understand.
ANNA TODD

It's ironic really, that the man who hates the world is most loved by it
ANNA TODD

Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he does't love you with everythi...
ANNA TODD

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports an...
TODD ENGLISH

As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cos...
TODD YOUNG

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance...
CHUCK TODD

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.
TODD BARRY

You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.
RON TODD

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary sit...
MIKE TODD

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that ...
TODD RUTHMAN

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can...
TODD STOCKER

The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be
TODD STOCKER

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable ...
TODD PARK

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?
TODD PARK

Our message of ensuring every Hoosier has access to a quality education that turns into a good payin...
TODD YOUNG

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable part...
TODD HAYNES

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that d...
TODD GITLIN

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
TODD GITLIN

Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When...
TODD TIAHRT

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
TODD BARRY

One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decis...
TODD YOUNG

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring th...
TODD BARRY

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be pr...
TODD AKIN

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our mar...
TODD TIAHRT

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity o...
CHUCK TODD

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every ...
TODD TIAHRT

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability...
TODD GITLIN

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
TODD AKIN

Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist.
TODD PARK

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative p...
TODD YOUNG

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.
TODD TIAHRT

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests th...
TODD YOUNG

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and...
TODD RUNDGREN

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into i...
TODD MCFARLANE

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism...
TODD HAYNES

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' &#...
TODD HAYNES

I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enj...
TODD BARRY

If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.
TODD STOCKER

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affo...
TODD AKIN

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we kno...
TODD ENGLISH

Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, mean...
CHUCK TODD

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the da...
TODD TIAHRT

I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brigh...
TODD ENGLISH

The Scripture says that as Jesus gave up his spirit, as he sagged there, lifeless on that Roman cros...
TODD BURPO

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone...
TODD BARRY

As someone who took an oath to defend this country, I refuse to sit idle until the unimaginable occu...
TODD YOUNG

The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations...
TODD WILLIAM

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.
TODD YOUNG

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the qua...
TODD PARK

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
MIKE TODD

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate,...
CHUCK TODD

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the ...
TODD RUNDGREN

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, whi...
TODD GITLIN

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party ...
TODD ENGLISH

I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'...
TODD RUNDGREN

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in oppositi...
TODD GITLIN

The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embat...
CHUCK TODD

All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses whi...
TODD ENGLISH

This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.
TODD YOUNG

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunit...
TODD ENGLISH

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is v...
TODD TIAHRT

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.
MIKE TODD

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did,...
TODD RUNDGREN

I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George H...
TODD RUNDGREN

My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ...
TODD RUNDGREN

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, ...
TODD RUNDGREN

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enoug...
TODD GARLINGTON

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.
TODD MCFARLANE

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the b...
TODD HAYNES

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - pa...
TODD GITLIN

The Humvee is an American military icon and will continue to be for decades. It is an essential part...
TODD YOUNG

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I...
TODD TIAHRT

Part of my responsibility as an officer was to oversee a team of analysts charged with synthesizing ...
TODD YOUNG

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults shou...
TODD BURPO

She put everything into raising us.
BRUCE TODD

It ought to be showing off Austin as arising in film making.
BRUCE TODD

We have an outstanding group of doctors, nurses, therapists and administrative personnel. They are h...
BRUCE TODD

I am one lucky guy.
BRUCE TODD

Television isn't black and white anymore, and neither are people
WILLIAM TODD

Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our powe...
TODD TIAHRT

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.
TODD TIAHRT

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family far...
TODD TIAHRT

It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really apprecia...
TODD HAYNES

That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do beside...
CHARLES TODD

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but ...
BRAD TODD

It wasn't any tougher than I expected, but with only having one guy with any previous experience at ...
BRAD TODD

That semifinal match actually helped his confidence. But Chris is the kind of guy that does a lot of...
BRAD TODD

That was the fourth time he's beat Poland this year and sometimes it's hard to get up for that kind ...
BRAD TODD

The kids wrote down their goals, and a lot of them wrote that they want to place in the top three at...
BRAD TODD

I think we've got a good chance to get a lot more guys through to district this year and that will h...
BRAD TODD

He definitely has some natural ability and catches on quickly.
BRAD TODD

He's good at tying up the other guys, but we want him to open up a little more, which will make him ...
BRAD TODD

We've been changing his style a little bit, trying to get him away from the big guys just hanging on...
BRAD TODD

I'm real proud of the fact all three of our seniors were able to wrestle in the district. I think th...
BRAD TODD

Creating insurance for the uninsured is made harder by the high-risk folks. (The pool) will make it ...
BILL TODD

The Tour promotes so many things, most notably good health through exercise, good partnerships with ...
BILL TODD

We are honored to have Ford Dealers help us to create a call to action to Georgians during the Tour,...
BILL TODD

The turnout was tremendous, much more than we expected. We are happy with the questions that were as...
BILL TODD

Nanotechnology will eventually apply to all cancers. However, this grant is focusing on breast and p...
BILL TODD

This mission will be the longest NEEMO and Aquarius (pictured) mission. Our partnerships with other ...
BILL TODD

[The Georgia Cancer Coalition, the beneficiary of the race, will continue to benefit from the procee...
BILL TODD

This mission will be the longest NEEMO and Aquarius mission. Our partnerships with other agencies an...
BILL TODD

It is a profit-sharing arrangement. The sponsors making a contribution [to the GCC] will be protecte...
BILL TODD

Everyone will be inspired by this house.
BONNEY TODD

The house has so much life.
BONNEY TODD

It really is a star. It is one of those houses that has everything ? location, architectural interes...
BONNEY TODD

You get spring fever being in this house. Every room has a view outside.
BONNEY TODD

Let me just say that when the score was 7-2, our players competed, especially our hitters. I was gla...
BOB TODD

They didn't have an answer for her. She was throwing the whole arsenal at them tonight.
BOB TODD

It was the best game. I didn't think I would ever get back to Louisville, and I didn't care because ...
BOB TODD

We have been playing our best ball. But the LIT shakes out who is playing the most consistent.
BOB TODD

Actually, we had exactly the same game plan as Saturday, except we executed better.
BOB TODD

This was a tough day to play, especially with the wind conditions. Today was a good test of attitude...
BOB TODD

There are just a lot of good squads out there all over the state. There's some good competition in K...
BOB TODD

We've been swinging the bats well up and down the lineup. Everyone's been contributing. We're coming...
BOB TODD

Iroquois is a very talented, athletic squad. Iroquois is so quick.
BOB TODD

Bill Davis Stadium has been ranked as one of the best college baseball stadiums in the country and I...
BOB TODD

When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attent...
TODD YOUNG

It feels good. They get up for every game. They?re excited to play. They count down the hours to gam...
CASEY TODD

Our team trusts Erin with their lives. She?s our general.
CASEY TODD

It shows us we still have a lot more work to do.
CASEY TODD

We had eight out of 10 kids score, so it was a great team effort.
CASEY TODD

She has the potential to be a very good inside/outside player if she can develop her shot.
CASEY TODD

She knows the team depends on her to put points on the board.
CASEY TODD

She?s been working really hard on her post moves.
CASEY TODD

Defensively you can?t give up eight 3-pointers and expect to win. (Beaulieu) had a great game.
CASEY TODD

When a freshman has to carry us offensively, it?s a tough day.
CASEY TODD

It?s a presence we never had before. It?s comforting, I guess, knowing we can match up with other te...
CASEY TODD

Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're ...
TODD RUNDGREN

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and ...
TODD RUNDGREN

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disp...
TODD HAYNES

I think this board is extending itself so the public does know what we are doing.
CAROL TODD

The data speaks for itself. I respect everyone's opinion, but we make decisions based on facts, not ...
CAROL TODD

We want to ensure that nothing disrupts the meeting ... or is disruptive to other citizens and their...
CAROL TODD

It was really important for Monterey to have this kind of recognition. This is the most significant ...
CAROL TODD

Entrepreneurs and innovators across the country are developing and deploying new data-powered IT too...
TODD PARK

I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Lik...
TODD RUNDGREN

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making...
TODD RUNDGREN

The highest-caliber dramatic work produced for TV - not just in cable but something like 'The Go...
TODD HAYNES

When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from...
TODD PARK

Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to coope...
TODD YOUNG

Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, ...
CHUCK TODD

La monnaie est souvent mythifiée, conçue comme magique et obscure. Son ambivalence fondamentale fa...
EMMANUEL TODD

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to...
TODD RUNDGREN

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on ...
TODD SOLONDZ

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably dif...
TODD RUNDGREN

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of so...
TODD GITLIN

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective wa...
TODD PARK

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You co...
TODD RUNDGREN

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. J...
TODD MCFARLANE

You're frustrated because obviously they called one in the first that wasn't a penalty. Then wheneve...
TODD WHITE

There's a lot of matte sparkle, ... It's not as glittery as we've done before, but it has beautiful ...
TODD OLDHAM

Not enough are saving. They are afraid of the costs [associated with setting up and administering a ...
TODD MCCRACKEN

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the ...
TODD GITLIN

What we lost to graduation we gained with new girls. Our distance team could score more points this ...
TODD TRAPP

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel ...
TODD BOYD

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the root...
TODD RUNDGREN

With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into...
TODD HAYNES

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.
TODD ENGLISH

Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actuall...
TODD YOUNG

If that yellow hadn't come out, we'd have won. You can ask Mark, he was a sitting duck.
TODD BODINE

He had more velocity on his fastball, his changeup was slower, and he had sharper breaking stuff, .....
TODD PRATT

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to de...
TODD GITLIN

Network television is not interested in civil rights; they're interested in making money. If things ...
TODD BOYD

U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this c...
TODD YOUNG

I can confirm the Commission is due to consider sending a letter to Poland warning Poland the Commis...
JONATHAN TODD

Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a...
CHUCK TODD

We know that Jake can pitch with a broken rib. He pitched with a broken rib (Tuesday). So would it b...
TODD HUTCHESON

The looping creates the impression of a much larger ensemble and affords a wider palette of textures...
TODD CAREY

We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what governm...
TODD ROKITA

When you're big and powerful, people pick on you. But believe me, they'll have their hands full with...
CHRISTINE TODD

That first round is always the toughest to get through. Anything can happen.
TODD HARVEY

One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinnin...
CHUCK TODD

I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and ...
TODD ENGLISH

A key part of the process for me is having screenings: not official test screenings, just gatherings...
TODD HAYNES

Anytime you can get four golfers under 100, you're going to be successful. You thrive to get a team ...
TODD SCHUMACHER

We are so defined by our prejudices and our preconceptions, ... that it's sometimes shocking to real...
TODD SOLONDZ

It's hard to say. They didn't do anything we didn't expect. We just didn't convert. Penalties and no...
TODD WATKINS

Guy Ritchie shoots a blank with Revolver ,
TODD MCCARTHY

We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur, ... We used silk and synthetic threads to i...
TODD OLDHAM

I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.

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Todd Phillips

I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.

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