You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.
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.
I wish I could remember people's names. I'm supposed to remember so many.
I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.
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?'
I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.
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.
We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.
I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.
It's easy to forget that when you take out all the shark stuff, 'Jaws' is a really beautiful human drama.
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.
We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.
I would love to wear, like, twee Wes Anderson suits everywhere and not get made fun of.
Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.
That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
A sense of humour is never a handicap.
The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
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.
Male relationships are deeply emotional and hard to talk about.
