Paul Feig Quotes

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• The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.

  Paul Feig

  Childhood, Lasts, Months

  "‘Spy’ Director Paul Feig on Backlash to Female ‘Ghostbusters’" by Jenelle Riley, variety.com. March 13, 2015.

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• The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

  Paul Feig

  Jobs, Directors, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

  Paul Feig

  Men, Gimmicks, Normal

  "Paul Feig explains his vision for a female-led 'Ghostbusters'". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.ew.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who's done it before.

  Paul Feig

  Strength, Long, Insecurity

  "Paul Feig And John Francis Daley Talk Filmmaking And Remember 'Freaks And Geeks'". Interview with John Francis Daley, www.forbes.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.

  Paul Feig

  "How a Hollywood Man Should Dress for The Oscars" by Paul Feig, www.esquire.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, School, Kids

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.

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• With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

  Paul Feig

  Suits, Looks, Nervous

  "Paul Feig: Underrated Man of the Moment". Interview With Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 11, 2011.

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• If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. That's what people will do, people will naturally tear stuff apart because they're trapped with it, they paid money for it. And they came into it wanting to love it. So all you can really do is piss off the audience. Unless you do things right.

  Paul Feig

  People, Mind, Tears

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

  Paul Feig

  Technology, Guy, Use

  "Ghostbusters Director Paul Feig: It's "Hollywood's Fault" Female Leads Are Still Rare". Interview with Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.

  Paul Feig

  Feel Better, Men, Suits

  "Hi, I'm Paul Feig, and I Wear a Suit Every Day for a Reason". www.esquire.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.

  Paul Feig

  Mom, Kids, School

  "Paul Feig: Underrated Man of the Moment". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and I've got your face filling the screen, you have to be real. If you do anything that is fake, you're not going to get away with it, because the camera is right there, and the story is being told in a very real way.

  Paul Feig

  Art, Real, Fake

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• So many of my friends have always been women growing up... I always feel slightly more comfortable around women because with guys in general there's always more of a danger zone... it's very aggressive sometimes the way guys act with each other, putting each other down and calling each other names, so I was always too sensitive for that and used to hang out with the girls. And they were always really funny to me.

  Paul Feig

  Girl, Growing Up, Names

  "Bridesmaids - Paul Feig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Everybody who's making the movies needs to work hard to make sure they're good. And if you don't show up and see the movies and support them financially, no one is going to make them. It's going to change unless it makes money. That's the long and short of it. You have to give in to the fact that it's a business.

  Paul Feig

  Hard Work, Giving, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

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  Mean, Want, Ridiculous

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• To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

  Paul Feig

  People, Funny People, Peril

  "Paul Feig talks 'Ghostbusters,' 'Geeks'". Interview by Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 14, 2015.

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• You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you. I think men and women both need a softness about them with formal wear.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Thinking, Needs

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• Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

  Paul Feig

  Simple, Awards, Years

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• I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.

  Paul Feig

  Religious, Powerful, Father

  "Can I be God for a little while?" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2005.

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• You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff about directing. No, you don't. You can know as much or as little as you have to. Your main job is to get great performances and tell the story correctly and capture it correctly. Then it's just basically yours to complicate or simplify as much as you want.

  Paul Feig

  Jobs, Light, Want

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• I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

  Paul Feig

  Mirrors, People, Focus

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 4 of 5)". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2012.

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• At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

  Paul Feig

  The End Of The Day, Trying, Add

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

  Paul Feig

  Crazy, Fall, Character

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.

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• In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

  Paul Feig

  Years, Laughing, Fake

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

  Paul Feig

  Past, Guy, Groups

  "Paul Feig on the BridesmaidsSequel, Female Comedy, and His S.N.L. Dreams". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. January 5, 2012.

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