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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe. Phil Lord Read Quote
Batman is the ultimate in white people problems. It’s like, ‘Oh, I’m so rich and handsome, and women like me, and… something about my parents!’ Phil Lord Read Quote
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. Phil Lord Read Quote
I don’t want to fail by being conservative; I want to fail by doing something no one has ever done. Phil Lord Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it. Phil Lord Read Quote
