Paul Feig Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

  Paul Feig

  Mean, Winning, Awards

  "'Bridesmaids' Director Paul Feig Reveals How Twitter Saved His Movie and Why Awards Matter (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

• I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

  Paul Feig

  Fans, Comedy, British

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

• We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

  Paul Feig

  Comedy, Used, Used To Be

• I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

  Paul Feig

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

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

• Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, People, Looks

  "'Bridesmaids' Director Paul Feig Reveals How Twitter Saved His Movie and Why Awards Matter (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

• I try not to blame the public, because the public - men, especially - have seen not great portrayals of women in supporting roles, because they're not given the lead roles a lot of the time. Especially in comedy, they're relegated to the adversary, which is like "the mean girlfriend."

  Paul Feig

  Girlfriend, Mean, Men

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

• Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think is a little better - but not put you down or just perplex you in the process.

  Paul Feig

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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

• Internationally and in foreign markets, movies starring women don't make as much money as movies starring men. And then you can blame filmmakers, especially in comedy, which is my bread and butter, because it's become a bit of a boys' club over the years. With the boys in charge you get these takes on women which are either the girlfriend or the mean wife or the girl who appears in a romantic comedy. You're just getting either men's fantasies about women or what they think is the reality about women instead of men just having a healthy attitude about women.

  Paul Feig

  Girl, Attitude, Mean

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

• Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Names, Guy

  "Paul Feig On Women: 19 Awesome Things ‘The Heat’ Director Has Said About Funny Ladies" By Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2013.

• I'm the biggest proponent of test screenings now. There's two ways to face test screenings. For dramas, I don't know if I would rely on them as much, although I still think you need them, because you're making a movie for an audience at the end of the day. But with comedy... You could go through a script or anything I ever worked on, where you go, "This is hilarious," and you put it in front of people and you get nothing. And then the other side of it, is something you're like, "I think this is really stupid," and it gets a giant laugh.

  Paul Feig

  Drama, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Comedy, Enough

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

• For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

  Paul Feig

  Strong, Crazy, Years

• I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

  Paul Feig

  Inability, Comedy, Enjoy

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

• The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, Fun, School

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5)". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.

• My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

  Paul Feig

  Real, Style, Comedy

• The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!

  Paul Feig

  Knowing, Order, People

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