Paul Feig Quotes

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

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?"

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.

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

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.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

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

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

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

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

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

So, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no idea what I was thinking

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.

I really feed off of The Walking Dead

Don't kid yourself munster

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

Every director should take an acting class.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

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

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.

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

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.

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