Paul Feig Quotes - Page 2

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• Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

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  Pain, Fall, Agony

  "Crybabies for Bolton" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2005.

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• 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.

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  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.

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• What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

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  Purpose, Done, Want

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• I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

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  People, Want, Painter

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

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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

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• What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

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  Next Day, Optimism, World

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

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• You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.

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  Mean, Thinking, Blue

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• What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

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  Want, Critics, Hardest

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

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

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  Real, Style, Comedy

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• One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

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  Knowing, Reputation

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• The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

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  People, Matter, Theater

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• That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

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  Knowing, People, Style

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

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• 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.

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  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.

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• I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

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  Writing, Comedian, Kind

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• 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.

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  Inability, Comedy, Enjoy

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

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• Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.

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  Fun, Eye, People

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

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• Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

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  Ducks, Teens, Care

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• Every director should take an acting class.

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  Class, Acting, Directors

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• I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

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  Feels

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

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• If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves.

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  Nuts, People, Magic

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

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• I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

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  Class, Reunion, Incidents

  "Director Paul Feig Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 5, 2012.

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• Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

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  Kids, Adults, Lines

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• I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

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  Believe, People, Stories

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• My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

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  Kids, People, Wife

  "Paul Feig: 'I'm a failure" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2011.

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• I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

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  Missing, Trying, Acting

  "Interview with Freaks and Geeks Creator Paul Feig (Part 2 of 3)". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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