Quotes by Paul Feig

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.'

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.'

As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'

The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'

I’m not a painter who’s saying, “I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that.” That’s not satisfying to me.

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

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.

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don’t hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, ‘Oh I shouldn’t have done that.’ There isn’t anything you shouldn’t try. If it’s terrible, who cares?

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 hate that we’re always called “the all-female Ghostbusters,” because you wouldn’t refer to the original as “the all-male Ghostbusters.”