Quotes from Paul Feig

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

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.'

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.

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

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?

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.

You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.