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Director
Phil Lord
Defining Films
Profile
Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) is an American filmmaker with his filmmaking partner Christopher Miller. They are the creators and co-stars of the adult animated sitcom Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024) and the writers and directors of the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and The Lego Movie (2014), as well as the directors of the live-action comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel, 22 Jump Street (2014). Lord and Miller are best known for working on the
In Their Own Words
We wanted to see all kinds of animation techniques in here. Not just the American style, but things like anime. So we looked at everything from Akira to Spirited Away, and even went back to early hand-drawn Warner Bros. cartoons.
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