Paul Feig Quotes

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who's telling the story.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

Lots of people do stand up shows with no narrative, but I love a beginning, a middle and an end.

My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.

At the end of the day, it's all about the story.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

I don't want to do sing-and-dance routine. I believe script is the king, so I would go for powerful stories.

The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.

A good story isn't preachy; a good story is always entertaining.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.