Latest Paul Feig Quotes from Interviews

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• The British model, which I've always thought was great, is that you do a TV show and then they sell it. Then you can buy it at the video stores forever, so it never went away. But American TV used to be if you had a show and it got cancelled, then it never existed. It was just this thing you heard about and you couldn't see it again. There is something so great about shows getting released and people getting to watch them over and over again. It definitely takes the sting out of it.

  Paul Feig

  People, Forever

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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

• I really put my heart and soul into everything and I don't want a project that doesn't feel real to me or I don't get invested in. In order to drive a show for eight or 10 years or whatever the target for doing a show is, it really has to be a part of you. Because then I can come up with stories for seasons and seasons on end. I wish I had the ability to just like the idea and get people in and drive it that way through their enthusiasm. For me, it has to be a little more of a personal thing, even if it's not a completely personal story.

  Paul Feig

  Real, Heart, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

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  People, Helping, Enjoy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Scripts are a house of cards and you can't just reach in the middle and pull out the middle card because the house of cards will fall down. But at a certain point you almost have to allow that house of cards to get knocked down a few times because you need to make it sturdier. How many times do you hear, "No, that doesn't make sense," or "Why would this happen?" That was a mistake. You shouldn't have those moments, because the moment you're knocked out of the story, then you're dead. And all you can go is moment to moment,or joke to joke. And that's gonna wear people out.

  Paul Feig

  Mistake, Fall, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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

• 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.

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  Drama, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Paul Feig

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• 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.

• When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.

  Paul Feig

  Character, Guy, Drag

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

• 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."

  Paul Feig

  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.

• 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.

• I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."

  Paul Feig

  Hate, Males, Female

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

• Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.

  Paul Feig

  People, Female, Roles

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

• 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.

• Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"

  Paul Feig

  Hey, Scripts, Ghost

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

• I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

  Paul Feig

  Kind, Paranormal, Skeptic

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

• 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.

• The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

  Paul Feig

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Little Britain… ever since it first came on… I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.

  Paul Feig

  Wife, Lots Of Friends, Hot

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

• I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

  Paul Feig

  Wish, Trying, Done

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