Zitat des Tages von Phil Lord:
We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.
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.
I would love to wear, like, twee Wes Anderson suits everywhere and not get made fun of.
You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
Male relationships are deeply emotional and hard to talk about.
We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.
The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.
'Zorn' goes to some pretty ridiculous places, but the real comedy is coming from these little observations about life that are not as outlandish as some of the bigger moves in the story. This is a guy who has magical relics and fights weird monsters and is also dealing with very basic work and family things.
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.
Having to top yourself is a good problem to have.
We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.
That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
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.
