American - Producer | July 12, 1975 -
You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.
Phil Lord
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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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It's easy to forget that when you take out all the shark stuff, 'Jaws' is a really beautiful human drama.
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The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
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You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
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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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That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.
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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 hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where you can sense the human hand in it.
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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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