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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)
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated. View quote
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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. View quote
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The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film. View quote
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My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? (Paul Feig)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think is a little better - but not put you down or just perplex you in the process. View quote
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The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody. View quote
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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.' View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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