Paul Feig Quotes - Page 3

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• As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

  Paul Feig

  People, Stuff, Directors

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• There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

  Paul Feig

  Firsts, Letdowns, Sequels

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• I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

  Paul Feig

  Jobs, Together, Events

  "Who Exactly Is This God Guy Anyway?" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Attitude, Mean

  Source: www.elle.com

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• At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

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  People, Ego, The End Of The Day

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• 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.

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• The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

  Paul Feig

  Stars, Awards, Class

  "Q&A: Paul Feig". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2011.

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• The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again.

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  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld - he's great because he let everyone be hilarious.

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  Stars, People, Looks

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• "Nuclear" is nothing but trouble. Do you say "new-clear" or do you say "nuke-you-ler"? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

  Paul Feig

  Missing, Nukes, Faces

  "Test Marketing a New Term..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

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  Nice, Healthy, Looks

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• I just love Kate. [Bieber], to me, is one of the funniest impressions because it's so all encompassing. It's like a total body and soul impression. But that's Kate. Every character she does is that way.

  Paul Feig

  Character, Soul, Body

  "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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• I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

  Paul Feig

  Jobs, Support, Able

  "Interview With Freaks And Geeks Creator Paul Feig (Part 1 Of 3)". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.

  Paul Feig

  Want, Freak, Geek

  "Paul Feig Looks Back on Freaks and Geeks - and Ahead to Its Possible Future". Interview with Jen Vhaney, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2015.

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• 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.

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  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.

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• One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."

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  People, Guy, Want

  "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 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!

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  Knowing, Order, People

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• What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?

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  Safe Environment, Trying, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. May 05, 2011.

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• What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

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  Successful, Track, Stories

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• In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

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  Long, Perfect, Needs

  "Paul Feig Talks THE HEAT on Blu-ray, a MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER Commentary Track, and Progress on SUSAN COOPER and PEOPLE IN NEW JERSEY". Interview by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?

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  World, Ghost, Busted

  "Paul Feig: Ghostbusters reboot criticism is 'vile, misogynistic shit" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

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  Honesty, Dirty, Nuts

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• What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

  Paul Feig

  Real, Vanity, Funny Women

  "Kristen Wiig, Dirtector Paul Feig and Producer Judd Apatow Interview BRIDESMAIDS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

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  Voice, Talking, Laughing

  "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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• I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection plate for me. I say that I'd like to be God for a while because He really can get away with anything. I mean, ANYTHING.

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  Mean, Names, People

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

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