Quotes from Phil Lord

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.

We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.

I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

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.

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.

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?'

Male relationships are deeply emotional and hard to talk about.