“I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a co...” — Todd Phillips Quote

“I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.”

“I really got into filmmaking through photography.”

“Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.”

“What brings people down is the same thing over and over.”

“The white working class desires safety for their families, but Islam brings everything but safety. Look at Europe!”

“When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.”

“I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the children come from different countries and speak different languages. It's difficult to find things they can all connect and interact with that are non-verbal. Sport is it.”

“Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.”