Paul Feig
Paul Feig
Paul Samuel Feig /ˈfiːɡ/is an actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the 2011 film Bridesmaids, featuring Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. Feig also directed the comedy films The Heatstarring McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, and Spywhich stars McCarthy, Jason Statham, and Jude Law...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 September 1962
CityMount Clemens, MI
CountryUnited States of America
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
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.
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.
I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.
Every director should take an acting class.
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."
Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.
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.
You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that [ "the all-female Ghostbusters" ], because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.
At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.
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.
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 hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."