“Scripts are a house of cards and you can't just reach in the middle and pull out the middle card because the house of cards will fall down. But at a certain point you almost have to allow that house of cards to get knocked down a few times because you need to make it sturdier. How many times do you hear, "No, that doesn't make sense," or "Why would this happen?" That was a mistake. You shouldn't have those moments, because the moment you're knocked out of the story, then you're dead. And all you can go is moment to moment,or joke to joke. And that's gonna wear people out.” PeopleMomentsFallHouseMistakeJokesMake SenseFalling Down Author:Paul Feig
“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.'” PeopleJokesLet MeHeyAmusingWeirdnessFunny People Author:Paul Feig
“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.” CharacterFallComedyCrazyJokesFalling ApartBeing Crazy Author:Paul Feig
“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.” FirstsMeanReasonStoriesWinningComedyJokesFilmmakerAwards Author:Paul Feig
“You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.” HappensThousandJokesPercentAverageBatting Author:Paul Feig
“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.” WantStoriesNextAudienceSuccessfulJokesTrackStringsFatigue Author:Paul Feig
