Top 80 Paul Feig Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.”

— Paul Feig

52. “Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.”

— Paul Feig

53. “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

54. “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

55. “Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?”

— Paul Feig

56. “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.”

— Paul Feig

57. “I really feed off of The Walking Dead.”

— Paul Feig

58. “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

59. “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.”

— Paul Feig

60. “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.”

— Paul Feig

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

— Paul Feig

62. “Wearing a tuxedo isn’t as simple as it sounds. I’ve been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It’s surprisingly easy to go off the rails.”

— Paul Feig

63. “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.”

— Paul Feig

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

— Paul Feig

65. “I’m just an enormous British comedy fan.”

— Paul Feig

66. “So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It’s always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld – he’s great because he let everyone be hilarious.”

— Paul Feig

67. “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

68. “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

69. “I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek – it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.”

— Paul Feig

70. “If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves.”

— Paul Feig

71. “That’s the thing with women’s movies – there’s so much about kind of catfighting. And my experience is women aren’t – look, we all get in fights with people, but it’s not that face-to-face aggression.”

— Paul Feig

72. “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

73. “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

74. “I’m really a skeptic. I’m kind of not a believer in the paranormal.”

— Paul Feig

75. “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

76. “I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who’s done it before.”

— Paul Feig

77. “Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?”

— Paul Feig

78. “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

79. “What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that’s the hardest thing to do.”

— Paul Feig

80. “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.”

— Paul Feig

81. “Every director should take an acting class.”

— Paul Feig

82. “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

83. “One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what’s good and what’s not good.”

— Paul Feig

84. “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.”

— Paul Feig

85. “The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood,’”

— Paul Feig

86. “To me, there’s nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it’s just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.”

— Paul Feig

87. “My feeling was that there are no victories when you’re a geek. Actually, I take that back. There is a victory: you still have your friends, and you’ve gotten through the experience alive. That’s the biggest victory you can have in high school.”

— Paul Feig