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Interview with The Office Director Paul Feig

Nette — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:18:56 +0000

Read these amazing interviews with The Office director Paul Feig. He talks about Michael Scott and Steve Carell’s last episode.

hitfix.com:

HitFix: This is your first “Office” episode since the wedding pair last season, right?

Paul Feig: Yeah, I went away and did “Bridesmaids,” so I’ve been working on that for the whole time. Actually, it was looking for a while like I wasn’t going to be able to do Steve’s final “Office” episode, because we were heading into our sound mix, but we were able to move stuff around. It would have killed me to not be able to do Steve’s last one, so we were able to make it work out. I’m thrilled that I got to do it.

HitFix: How have you come to be the guy who gets approached to do this sort of Very Special Episode?

PF: I don’t know. They just very nicely offer these to me. I got to do the wedding. I got to do the proposal. I ended up getting to do the dinner party, which was a big episode. I think I’ve just done so many. I think I’ve done 20 now, because every hour I’ve done, they basically break into two half-hours and count those as two. I’ve definitely done a lot of them and I really get along great with the cast, like all of the directors, but I feel like I really understand the style of the show and I’m able to add little bits of stuff.

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eonline.com:

How do you balance the end of Steve Carell’s run as Michael Scott with the push to remind viewers that the show will go on?

You treat it very honestly; that’s what I love about the episode, they treated it very honest. I feel it’s exactly the way it would go with a boss like Michael leaving Dunder Mifflin. If you think back on this he’s been a very odd boss. The hardest part was balancing out our real-life love for Steve, who is the greatest man in the world—the nicest person in the world, you can’t imagine working with somebody nicer than him—with how you would really react if a boss like that was leaving. The hardest part for Greg Daniels, who wrote the episode, and myself, being on the set, was making sure that we didn’t get sadder than the characters on the show would be.

So where does the emotion come from in the episode?

The emotion comes from how Michael deals with it. For him, this place has always been more of a family for him than other characters in the show have ever felt. It’s a big moment for him.

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Paul Feig on Twitter!

Nette — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:40:11 +0000

Follow the very talented OFFICE director, Paul Feig on Twitter, go here.

Just a quick little note- I will be updating the LINKS page with all of the cast and crew of THE OFFICE who are Twittering.

Director Guild of America Awards

Nette — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:19:02 +0000

Congrats to Paul Feig! He has won Director Guild of America Award!!

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Office” won the top honor for television comedy Saturday from the Directors Guild of America, while the animated war remembrance “Waltz With Bashir” received the documentary prize.

Paul Feig received the award for an installment of “The Office,” whose competition included two episodes of “30 Rock,” the series that has dominated at recent Hollywood honors such as the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

“We’re in a real golden age of TV comedy, and I’m just happy to be part of it,” Feig said backstage.

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Vanity Fair Interviews Michael Shur and Paul Feig

Nette — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:00:26 +0000

The first interview is with ‘Office’ writer Michael Shur. Here’s a little snippet…

VF Daily: Can you tell me a little about how the writing process on The Office works?

Michael Schur: We all come in in the morning, and we just toss stuff out. If we hit a wall or something, and it doesn’t seem to be progressing, we’ll switch to some other idea. But it’s really just all the writers sitting around on some pretty uncomfortable fake leather couches for hours and hours and hours, just tossing out ideas about whatever story we’re talking about.

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Here’s another interview with ‘Office’ writer Paul Feig…

Does the documentary style of The Office make it easier for the director?

Totally. You don’t have to shoot in the standard style that you usually use for movies and TV shows. That is, let’s say two people are at a dinner table talking to each other. You would generally shoot one person from one direction, kind of over the shoulder of the other person; then you’d flip the cameras around, relight, and go the other way. But since the conceit of The Office is that it’s a documentary, you’d never set up shots where one camera can see the other camera. So it allows you to go very quickly, because you don’t have to reset the lighting within a scene.

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The Trouble with Paul Feig

Nette — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:38:47 +0000

I’D KNOWN PAUL FEIG for about four, four and a half minutes when I asked him that most routine of Hollywood icebreakers: “What projects are you working on?” We were in his shiny silver Mini Cooper, leaving the Burbank house he shares with his wife, Laurie, to drive south to the Comic Con convention in San Diego, in which Feig was scheduled to participate. He lurched without bravado into a litany of film pitches, a young-adult book series, a handful of TV shows at various stages of development and his new gig as co-executive producer of NBC’s No. 1 comedy hit, “The Office.”

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Paul Feig Turns Pen to Middle School Readers

Nette — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:28:02 +0000

As creator of the NBC television show “Freaks and Geeks,” Paul Feig has written about kids. So he said it wasn’t such a stretch to write for them.

The writer and television director will visit Borders in La Grange this month to visit with fans and to sign copies of his newest book, Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut! Like many of Feig’s projects, this one centers around a young man who doesn’t quite fit in.

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Emmy Submissions From ‘The Office’

Nette — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:03:20 +0000

This list has been updated.

Comedy Series
The Office – “Local Ad” and “Branch Wars”

Comedy Lead Actor
Steve Carell – “Branch Wars”

Comedy Supporting Actor
Leslie David Baker
Brian Buamgartner – “Chair Model”
Creed Batton _ Dunder Mifflin Infinity”
Ed Helms – “Launch Party”
John Krasinski – “Branch Wars”
Paul Liebersein - “Branch Wars”
Rainn Wilson – “Money”
B.J. Novak – “Night Out”

Comedy Supporting Actress
Jenna Fischer – “Fun Run”
Mindy Kaling – “The Deposition”
Kate Flannery – “Fun Run”
Angela Kinsey – “Fun Run”
Melora Hardin – “Dinner Party”
Phyllis Smith – “Launch Party”

Comedy Guest Actress
Amy Ryan – “Goodbye, Toby”
Rashida Jones – “Branch Wars”

Comedy Directing
Jeff Blitz – “Chair Model”
Greg Daniels – “Fun Run”
Randall Einhorn – “Did I Stutter?”
Julian Farino – “The Deposition”
Paul Feig – “Goodbye, Toby”
Tucker Gates – “Job Fair”
Paul Lieberstein – “Money”
Jason Reitman – “Local Ad”
Joss Whedon – “Branch Wars”
Keb Whittingham – “Launch Party”
Craig Zisk – “Dunder Mifflin Infinity”

Comedy Writing
Steve Carell – “Survivior Man”
Greg Daniels – “Fun Run”
Brent Forrester,Justin Spitzer – “Did I Stutter?”
Mindy Kaling – “Branch Wars”
Lester Lewis – “The Deposition”
Paul Lieberstein – “Money”
Paul Lieberstein, Jen Celotta – “Goodbye, Toby”
B.J. Novak – “Local Ad”
Michael Shur – “Dunder Mifflin Infinity”
Gene Stupntisky, Lee Eisenberg – “Dinner Party”

Hairstyling
‘The Office’ hairstyling staff – “Fun Run”

Makeup
‘The Office’ makeup staff – “Fun Run”

This has all been reported by The Envelope Forums.