Paul Feig Quotes - Page 4

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• I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

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  Mean, Successful, Thinking

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• I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

  Paul Feig

  People, Hey, Weirdness

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

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• Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

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  Mean, Successful, Age

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• Hollywood is a business and movie studios are only going to do what's going to make money. It's not an altruistic thing. They are blatant grabs for money. Responsible studios want to make quality pictures, but at the same time nobody is going to make quality pictures they know aren't going to make any money.

  Paul Feig

  Quality, Making Money, Responsible

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Add, Wells

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

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• When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

  Paul Feig

  School, Swings, Late

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• I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

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  Drama, Michigan, Clubs

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• If you made a movie that no man in the world went near, but every woman in the world went to, you'd have the highest grossing movie of all time. You'd make trillions of dollars. But I don't want to make movies that are just for the ladies. I don't want to ghettoize any audience that way.

  Paul Feig

  Men, World, All Time

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Paul Feig

  Comedy, Used, Used To Be

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• 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Real, Ice Cream

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

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• At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

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  Mean, Successful, People

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• I think things go wrong when there's not a very specific plan and specific emotional roadmap. You need to know what a scene needs to get across, and what story point that needs to be advanced, whether it's discovering someone for the first time or whether it's seeing a relationship get strained. 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.

  Paul Feig

  Emotional, Thinking, Environment

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

  Paul Feig

  Doors, People, Mind

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

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• I really feed off of The Walking Dead.

  Paul Feig

  Walking Dead, Walking

  "New scarier Ghostbusters movie inspired by The Walking Dead" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2015.

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• You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

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  Average, Thousand, Happens

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

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  Acting, Cameras, Able

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• I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.

  Paul Feig

  Who I Am, People, Complaining

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• I've made a career making stuff that nobody sees, so anything that I can do to help make something that people are going to enjoy and want to see over and over again, then I'm there.

  Paul Feig

  People, Helping, Enjoy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

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  Girl, Thinking, Views

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• God does things that fly completely in the face of what we've all been taught that He is supposed to do and every time He does this, we all just say, 'Oh, well, I guess there must be some good reason why He did that.

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  Doe, Faces, Taught

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• Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.

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  White, Light, Blue

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• 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.

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  Strong, Crazy, Years

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• I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids.

  Paul Feig

  Kids, Thinking, Ties

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