Biography

In 1986, Feig appeared on The $25,000 Pyramid (1982) and won $29,000 which he used to finance a run at stand-up comedy.

Once worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios in Hollywood.

In his television series Freaks and Geeks (1999), the fictitious town of Chippewa was loosely based on the area surrounding Mt. Clemens, Michigan, where he grew up.

Co-owns the gin brand Artingstall's which is his mother's maiden name.

Saw Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run (1969) when he was 9 years old and was so enthralled by it, he still remembers how "It came on and it was like a religious experience".

Every director should take an acting class.

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.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

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.

When I was a kid, I used to hate watching kids on TV who were smart or snappy. I liked watching adults being stupid. That's why I liked Monty Python, because these were adults acting insane, whereas when a kid came on, hey, he knew everything, and I was like, 'I don't wanna see that, because I don't know everything, and I don't wanna see a kid who's more together than me.'