“Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.” PeopleFeelsKindEyeFunLibertySeeingLike YouBehaviorStandingCamerasAddStanding ThereImmediacyWhipping Author:Paul Feig
“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.” PeopleLooksKindFacesFightingAggressionFace To Face Author:Paul Feig
“I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.” ThinkingKindMeanI CanSometimesShowsBigsComedyStyleDramaAlliesClosestAlly Mcbeal Author:Paul Feig
“The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.” PeopleThinkingKindShowsRealityAgeStuffQualityTelevisionRight NowGood ThingsGoldenContestsCablesRealisedGolden AgeAmerican Television Author:Paul Feig
“I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.” KindBelieverParanormalSkeptic Author:Paul Feig
“Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.” WorldLooksKindMeanDoeAgeTogetherYoungSuccessfulBeing SuccessfulPausesMarkers Author:Paul Feig
“I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.” WritingKindComedian Author:Paul Feig
“My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.” KindRealComedyStyleTragicBittersweetVergeBitter Sweet Author:Paul Feig
“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.” KindPastGuyTurnsGroupsComfortableGeekMy Past Author:Paul Feig
“Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.” MenKindDifferentGuyNamesComedyCallingAggressiveInsultingName CallingBusting Author:Paul Feig
“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.” ThinkingKindMeanImportantStuffSuccessfulHonestBeing HonestPersonal Stuff Author:Paul Feig
“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.” PeopleFeelsTryingKindLittlesSeemsGuyVoiceRoomsTalkingLaughingBeatsSupportiveTalking About Others Author:Paul Feig
