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Paul Feig
American
Director
Born:
Sep 17
,
1962
Always
Comedy
Me
People
Women
You
Related authors:
David Lynch
George Lucas
Martin Scorsese
Spike Lee
Steven Spielberg
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Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.
Paul Feig
Work
Entertainment
People
Coward
Nice
Other
Hey
Say
Wayne
Guy
Dirty
Dirty Work
Like
Around
Get
Skate
While
Nice Guy
I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.
Paul Feig
People
Glasses
Sex
Saw
Kids
Hated
Nerds
Cartoons
About
Dating
Never
Good-Looking
Because
Always
Were
Tape
Accurately
Movies
Cool
Popular
Shows
Portrayed
You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you. I think men and women both need a softness about them with formal wear.
Paul Feig
You
Women
Men
Men And Women
Control
Live
Think
Softness
Says
Wear
Outfit
About
Both
Imperfect
Formal
Them
Your
Element
Letting
Need
Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
Paul Feig
Care
Somewhere
Teens
Would
Wear
Could
Throughout
No-One
Duck
Go
Pin
Donald
Donald Duck
Just
Wanted
'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
You
Word
Down
Once
Positively
Say
Constitutional
Potato
Fact
Lays
Simply
Bag
Like
Verbal
Real
Equivalent
Hand
Off
Cone
Rolls
Just
In Fact
Ice
Ice Cream
Chips
Cream
Your
Skipping
Fun
Downright
Street
Tongue
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.
Paul Feig
Positive
Day
You
World
End Of The Day
Try
Add
Something
Doing
Question
End
Going
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.
Paul Feig
Me
Maturity
Ride
School
Comedy
Walk
Sex
Late
Side
High
High School
Onscreen
Developer
Always
Source
Childhood
Bike
Your
Fun
Why
Portray
Levels
Last
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
Paul Feig
Laugh
One Thing
Able
Never
Camera
Years
The One Thing
Acting
Thing
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.
Paul Feig
Me
People
Wife
Down
Way
Kids
Tell
About
Wired
Just
Us
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
Love
Funny
Me
You
People
Joke
Funny People
Hey
Says
Tell
Someone
Weirdness
Because
Opposed
Stops
Who
Amusing
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
Paul Feig
Good
People
Matter
See
Something
Come
Getting
Theater
Hard
Hard Thing
Thing
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
Women
Comedy
Men
Aggressive
Other
Kind
About
Guy
Insulting
Very
Than
Different
Chops
Each
Busting
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
Love
Suits
Wait
Old
Think
Kid
Kids
Would
Would-Be
Wearing
Seeing
Dressed
Dressing
Guys
Directors
Adult
No-One
Pictures
Like
Most
Ties
Anymore
Wants
Biggest
Happens
Biggest Thing
Hollywood
Grips
Even
Thing
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
God
Together
Job
Immediate
Bit
Out
Some
Thrown
He
Feel
Like
Well
Him
Makes
Always
Still
Doing
Continue
His
Get
Get Together
Just
Aftermath
Either
Which
Ask
Us
Help
Event
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.
Paul Feig
Life
God
Time
Father
Thought
My Life
Advice
Big
Father Figure
Ruler
Dimension
Religious
All-Time
Brought
Only
Could
Throughout
Chat
Part
Powerful
Also
Household
Always
Praying
Lot
Friend
Questions
Up
Very
Get
Big Part
Did
Being
Ask
Figure
Whom
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.'
Paul Feig
God
Time
Good
Fly
Face
Every
Every Time
Guess
Say
Must
Some
Good Reason
He
Supposed
Well
Does
Been
Did
Oh
Just
Taught
Reason
Why
Things
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.'
Paul Feig
You
Women
Girl
Think
Say
Dare
Geek
Pretty
Point
Point Of View
Know
Around
How
Lot
Up
Grew
Sensitive
View
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
Paul Feig
You
Jokes
Batting
Thousand
Percent
Never
Going
Just
Happen
Average
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.
Paul Feig
Life
Success
You
Together
Age
World
Whatever
Young
Everyone
Everything
Kind
Takes
Look
Does
Always
Coming
Up
Fictitious
Pause
Really
Successful
Means
Your
Assess
The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.
Paul Feig
Life
Best
You
Man
Construction
Suits
Better
Achieve
Made
Three
Harmony
Everything
Details
Fabric
Wearing
About
More
Simply
Feel
Like
Look
Well
Glove
Fit
Fits
Owned
Realized
Suit
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
Late
High
Dressed
High School
Part
Know
Disco
Did
Anyone
Full
Who
Swing
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.
Paul Feig
Me
You
People
Comedy
Matter
Films
Relate
Back
Wow
More
Costume
Like
Look
Period
Yeah
Discover
Friends
Did
Want
Whereas
Then
Really
Cool
Fun
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
Love
Class
World
Emmys
Liked
Nominated
Always
Been
Won
Getting
Gold
Happier
Award
Ridiculous
Star
Awards
Bash
Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.
Paul Feig
Women
Made
Men
Enough
Bad
Consult
Comedies
Who
Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.
Paul Feig
Mom
Me
School
Everywhere
Kid
Wearing
Beat
Bought
Since
Pierre
Comfortable
Felt
Got
Up
Going
Little
Wore
Realized
Little Kid
Who
Eventually
Ever
Thing
Started
Kept
Suit
I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.
Paul Feig
Work
Miss
Auditioning
Get
Trying
Happier
Acting
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