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Phil Lord
American
Producer
Born:
Jul 12
,
1975
About
Great
People
Try
Wish
You
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You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.
Phil Lord
You
People
Say
Risk
Always
Misunderstanding
Anything
I wish I could remember people's names. I'm supposed to remember so many.
Phil Lord
People
Remember
Wish
Could
Supposed
Names
Many
You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
Phil Lord
Great
You
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Great Artist
Pencil
Animator
Sooner
Learn
Making
Quicker
Artist
Miles
Start
Need
Filmmaker
I would love to wear, like, twee Wes Anderson suits everywhere and not get made fun of.
Phil Lord
Love
Suits
Made
Everywhere
Anderson
Would
Wear
Like
Get
Fun
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?'
Phil Lord
You
Women
People
Will
Long
Few
Think
Back
Embarrassed
Out
See
More
Take
Look
How
Years
Lot
Very
Did
Going
Ask
Figure
Film-Makers
That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
Phil Lord
Thought
Bad
Lies
Lord
Might
Epitaph
Here
Phil
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.
Phil Lord
Alone
You
Writing
Try
Hair
Down
Paper
Possible
Stay
About
Casting
Open-Minded
Name
Blonde
Blonde Hair
Getting
Stop
Might
Avoid
Even
Things
The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
Phil Lord
Great
You
Thinking
Way
Great Ideas
About
Ideas
Obvious
Doing
Stop
Start
Flowing
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.
Phil Lord
Kind
Look
Also
Make
Stylized
Lego
Cloudy
Which
While
Then
Fun
We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.
Phil Lord
Try
Judgment
Type
Vanity
About
Genre
Any
Film
Male relationships are deeply emotional and hard to talk about.
Phil Lord
Relationships
About
Emotional
Talk
Male
Hard
Deeply
I apologize for the song 'Everything Is Awesome.'
Phil Lord
Song
Awesome
Everything
Apologize
In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.
Phil Lord
Time
You
Animation
Precise
Much
Planning
I'm a big 'Omega Man' fan because of how insane he seems, just driving around in that car really fast. It has, like, a very strange tone to it.
Phil Lord
Man
Strange
Car
Big
Insane
Seems
Driving
He
Like
Because
Around
How
Very
Just
Fan
Really
Fast
Tone
I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.
Phil Lord
Time
Great
Smart
Wish
Every
Enough
Every Time
Bat
Had
Idea
Were
Off
Script
Right
You can't play not to lose. You kind of have to put your ego aside and accept the fact that careers are long, and there's gonna be stuff people like and stuff that people don't like, and you try to get better every time, and always put something out that you're proud of. And let the chips fall where they may.
Phil Lord
Time
You
People
Ego
Better
Try
Long
Fall
Lose
Every
Every Time
Out
Kind
Something
Fact
Put
Stuff
Like
Accept
Always
Proud
Get
May
Where
Chips
Gonna
Aside
Your
Play
Careers
One of the things that has proven true in our career is that even if you take something that's as straightforward and classic as a father-son story, you can express it in a way that's totally unique to you.
Phil Lord
You
Our
Way
One Of The Things
Classic
Totally
Something
Take
True
Proven
Story
Straightforward
Unique
Even
Express
Things
Career
You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
Phil Lord
Good
You
Secret
Out
Possible
Find
About
Make
Because
Precious
Any
Whether
Flawed
Flaws
Fast
Things
Need
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