Director Todd Phillips guesses lines from some of his most famous projects including, 'The Hangover,' 'The Joker,' and 'Road Trip.'
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00:00So just now do it?
00:02That's a funny line.
00:03I know what this is.
00:04I mean, this is a super ridiculous line.
00:05Oh, this is a horrible line.
00:12Hello, how about that ride in?
00:14I guess that's why they call it Sin City.
00:17Obviously, that's the hangover.
00:20It's the infamous speech that Alan gives on the roof
00:23of the first night of the hangover.
00:25How about that ride in?
00:27I guess that's why they call it Sin City.
00:29What I remember most about that is
00:31Zach and I really rewrote it on the roof that night.
00:34What we had originally written was a little too short,
00:37and we just kind of expanded on it.
00:39Of course, Zach puts his own touches on it.
00:41Yeah, that really kicked off the hangover
00:43that is in the hangover.
00:45What I think about all the comedies in general
00:47is the best feedback you can give a filmmaker
00:50or probably the actors in a movie,
00:52sometimes I'll get people to say,
00:54you know, I was in the worst mood
00:56and got home last night, and the hangover was on HBO,
00:59and I watched it, and I just forgot about everything,
01:02and I just laughed, and it just put me in the best mood.
01:05And really, what is the goal of a comedy but that?
01:09Ready?
01:16Yeah, that's from Due Date,
01:18and Robert Downey says that to Zach.
01:21I'm sorry we drank your father.
01:23That movie, more than any of the films I made,
01:26felt like we were making it up on the spot.
01:29We weren't, of course.
01:31We worked hard on a script and a story,
01:33but they're both so good at improvisation.
01:35Robert is so brilliant and so quick.
01:38To me, my memories of this movie are
01:40it was the best time I ever had making a movie in some ways.
01:45Oh, I know what this is.
01:47I found your 9-iron, bitch.
01:50Was that Snoop Dogg said that to Vince Vaughn
01:53in Starsky & Hutch?
01:55I found your 9-iron, bitch.
01:57Snoop was amazing to work with, and it was my second time.
02:00Snoop did a cameo in Old School,
02:03and quite frankly, the way I got Snoop
02:06to do the cameo in Old School
02:08is because he knew I was also going to do Starsky & Hutch after,
02:11and he wanted to play Huggy Bear.
02:13He was really difficult to wrangle on Old School,
02:16and he said, he explained it to me,
02:18because I go, Snoop, this is crazy.
02:20We're going to do a whole movie together, meaning Starsky & Hutch.
02:23I go, it can't be like this.
02:25And he goes, no, no, no, you got it wrong.
02:27He goes, you hired Snoop Dogg to play Snoop Dogg in your movie,
02:30and with that, you get all this,
02:32because he had a lot of friends there and a lot of hanging out.
02:35On Starsky & Hutch, you're hiring me as an actor,
02:38and he was right.
02:40He showed up on time every day on Starsky & Hutch,
02:43knew exactly what was going on, knew all his lines.
02:46It was a dream.
02:51I wish... I mean, this is such a ridiculous line.
02:54I wish monkeys could Skype, maybe one day.
02:58That's in Hangover 2,
03:00and that's probably one of my top favourite scenes in all three Hangovers.
03:04I wish monkeys could Skype.
03:08Maybe one day.
03:10We were just dying laughing this day,
03:13and Zach takes a moment and puts a cigarette in the monkey's mouth
03:16because the monkey was clearly an addicted smoker,
03:19like two packs a day.
03:21It was sweet.
03:23It's about as sweet as the Hangover can get.
03:25It really took off, and it was really a big success, the first Hangover,
03:28not just in the States but internationally.
03:31So we, me and the guys, we really just started talking,
03:34well, you know, what if we did another one, and we could do another.
03:37And the truth is, so many people are so dismissive of sequels in general
03:42because they think, oh, it's a money grab.
03:44What people don't realise about filmmaking is
03:47you really become friends and you become a family,
03:49and it's like, wait, we get to do this again?
03:51We get to hang out again together and just make each other laugh all day?
03:55So it's really motivated by that.
03:58I mean, I understand maybe the studio, that's what they want from a sequel,
04:02and while we want it to be successful,
04:04the truth is we just all want to hang out together again.
04:07OK, I used to think that my life was a tragedy,
04:11but now I realise it's a fucking comedy.
04:13Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, he says it to his mother right before he kills her.
04:19I used to think that my life was a tragedy,
04:23but now I realise it's a fucking comedy.
04:27Great line to say before you kill somebody,
04:30before you smother your mom with a pillow.
04:32Scott Silver and I wrote the Joker together, and Joker 2,
04:37and I forget where this line came from, when in the process it came from.
04:42Sometimes you just know, oh, that's going to be a seminal line,
04:45and that line really jumped out at us,
04:47and I remember Joaquin really liking that line too,
04:50which means a lot because he never likes anything.
04:52Joaquin and I, we had a really special time working on Joker,
04:56and we really did not feel like we were done with Arthur.
04:59I remember most of the times when you finish a movie,
05:03you celebrate the fact that the movie's done,
05:06but I remember when we finished the first Joker,
05:08there was really a deep sadness with me and Joaquin.
05:12We weren't really ready to leave Arthur behind,
05:15so a lot of just the idea of trying to do another one
05:18was to spend more time with Arthur Fleck.
05:21Just like Joaquin was his own take on the Joker character,
05:26I think with Gaga and her version of Harley, it's the same thing.
05:30We tried to respect the animated series, the comics, the movies,
05:35but run it through a really realistic lens
05:38like we did with the first film.
05:42That's a funny line.
05:45There are two types of men in this world,
05:47those who run shit like me and those who eat shit like you,
05:51and that was said by Billy Bob Thornton in School for Scoundrels.
05:55There are two types of men in this world,
05:58those who run shit like me and those who eat shit like you.
06:04While that's a funny line, that movie was a really difficult situation for me
06:08because I wrote that movie with Scott Armstrong,
06:11who I had written Old School with and Road Trip and a couple other things.
06:15That movie was always meant to be an R-rated film.
06:17I swear maybe two or three weeks before we started shooting that movie,
06:21Harvey Weinstein called me and said,
06:23No, it's got to be PG-13, and I had really not a good familiarity
06:28in that space with this kind of comedy.
06:30And to me it was always disappointing, that film,
06:33because it really took the teeth out of the movie
06:35and we found it really difficult under those constraints.
06:42Okay, so I'm here for the...
06:45Well, let me look at the camera and say this one.
06:47I'm here for the gangbang.
06:50This line was from Old School,
06:52and this line was said by a terrible actor, me, Todd Billups.
06:57I'm here for the gangbang.
06:59I still to this day have people come up to me and say that line.
07:03I was with my mom in a restaurant in New York
07:06and a group of firemen were eating over there,
07:09and one of them got up and came over.
07:11I'm with my mother and just said it rather loudly,
07:14and the guys over there are all laughing, and I sort of nodded.
07:18My mom's looking at me because I don't know that my mom ever even seen the movie.
07:22Basically the gist of this character was
07:25I always play the creepiest guy in the movie,
07:28so this guy, we call him Mr. Creepy.
07:30He's in A Road Trip, he's in Old School,
07:32he's in two of the three Hangovers, he's in Due Date.
07:35I have done an extensive body of work,
07:38only act in Todd Billups' movies, though.
07:41Any director comes to me, they ask me, I refuse it.
07:45Oh, this is a horrible line.
07:48This is, you're already cheating.
07:51Anytime you pass up sex, you're cheating on yourself.
07:54I imagine that that was said in Road Trip by Sean William Scott.
07:59You're already cheating.
08:01Anytime you pass up sex, you're cheating on yourself.
08:03This is the thing that people have to understand about comedies in general.
08:07Comedies are not meant to be timeless.
08:10Comedies are often perishable
08:13because they're reflecting or they're commenting on the current times.
08:18So you can look at a line from 25 years ago and go,
08:21oh, I don't know if I, that line is,
08:24this isn't even the best example, but you know,
08:27ah, what is the best?
08:30I'm trying to bring danger back into rock and roll
08:33and there are no limits and no laws
08:35and I'll break down every barrier put in front of me
08:37till the day I die.
08:39That was said by G.G. Allen in my first film.
08:44It's a documentary about this punk rock singer, G.G. Allen, called Hated.
08:48I'm trying to bring danger back into rock and roll
08:51and there are no limits and no laws
08:53and I'll break down every barrier put in front of me
08:56till the day I die.
08:57He had a very unique perspective on music,
08:59but it was really more just his attitude
09:02and what he was putting forward.
09:04It just seemed like an amazing documentary subject.
09:07They say in documentaries, a documentary is 90% subject matter
09:11and G.G.'s a perfect example of that.
09:13The movie is very shoddily made.
09:15I had no money, I was 20 years old,
09:17but because he was such an interesting subject,
09:20it sort of carries the film.
09:22What is this one?
09:24Someone needs to burn this place to the ground.
09:28Someone needs to burn this place to the ground.
09:30What is that from?
09:31I mean, it could be any of my movies in some bizarre way,
09:34so it's a tough one.
09:35Oh, oh, oh, it's Chow, isn't it?
09:37Is it Mr. Chow?
09:39It's Alan?
09:40Oh, no, I know who it is.
09:42I know what this is.
09:44It's Ed Helms in The Hangover Part 3.
09:48Someone needs to burn this place to the ground.
09:51I don't know that it would be Hangover 4,
09:54but I have such an affinity to every actor I've ever worked with
09:57and those three guys, we really went through it.
09:59We traveled the world together,
10:01making movies, promoting these movies,
10:03so it would be a shame if we didn't just get the band back together
10:07to at least work together.
10:09I don't know that it's Hangover 4.