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I really feed off of The Walking Dead.
I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.
Every director should take an acting class.
Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.
Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?
I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.
The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again.
Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.
I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.
I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.
We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.
There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.
The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.
With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?
What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.
Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
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 find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.
Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"
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.
When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."
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.
I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.
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.
At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.
At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey.
What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.
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.
Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.
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.