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" What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great. "

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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. "

Paul Feig

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" At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

Paul Feig

You

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Every director should take an acting class. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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

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

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

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

Paul Feig

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" Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "