Paul Guay
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Paul Guay is a writer, actor, director, teacher, script consultant, speaker, and workshop leader whose movies have grossed over half a billion dollars.
He conceived and co-wrote Liar Liar (1997), at the time of its release the fifth-highest-grossing comedy in history, the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year, the second-highest-grossing film of Jim Carrey's career, and Imagine's highest-grossing film ever.
The screenplay received an Honorable Mention (along with Fargo (1996), Million Dollar Baby (2004), The Full Monty (1997) and Catch Me If You Can (2002)) in Scr(i)pt magazine's list of the Best Scripts of the Past 10 Years.
William C. Martell published Secrets of Story: Liar, Liar, a step-by-step guide to solving screenwriting problems using Liar, Liar as a model.
Two drafts of the screenplay were published by Harvest Moon.
Paul co-wrote The Little Rascals (1994), Universal's second-highest-grossing film of the year.
He co-wrote Heartbreakers (2001), starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee, which opened #1 at the box office.
Paul's polish of The NeverEnding Story (1984) got the movie made. The beloved children's fantasy spawned two sequels, two TV series, three computer games, a stage play, a ballet, and an opera.
He is a talking head in "Dreams on Spec," the feature documentary that interviews such A-list writers as James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Gary Ross, Carrie Fisher and Ed Solomon.
Paul began his career in the entertainment industry in marketing, advertising and publicity, where his clients included Buena Vista, Carolco, Columbia, Daily Variety, Fox Broadcasting Company, Morgan Creek, William Morris, NBC, New Line, Playboy, TriStar, Twentieth Century Fox, United Artists, Warner Bros., Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jackson and Madonna.
He graduated Cum Laude from Pomona College with a double major in English and philosophy, figuring if the career in writing didn't work out, he always had philosophy to fall back on.
Current Projects:
Paul is co-writing "The Affordable [Redacted]," a fish-out-of-water crime comedy inspired by an outrageous true story that fascinated and entertained people around the world.
After directing the most successful comedy (or for that matter, drama) in the history of Santa Monica's Morgan-Wixson Theatre (founded in 1946), he made his movie-directing debut with three short comedy films he wrote: The Godfather (2023), The Vampyre (2023), and Who Guardeth the Guards (2023).
"The Vampyre" was an official selection of Comic-Con, the Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the Die Laughing Film Festival, the Awesome Con Short Film Festival and the Anthem Film Festival, where it won the Best Short Comedy Award.
Recently Paul wrote "Audition Notes," a chapter for an upcoming anthology of acting essays and exercises tentatively titled "Now Act!" The editor is Laurie Lamson, who previously published his "Hurt Me, Hurt Me! (Oh, and Help Me Make My Script Better") as a chapter in her anthology titled "Now Write!"
Paul is a sought-after script consultant. His website: ScreenMasterBooks.com/Analysis/PaulGuay.html.
He conceived and co-wrote Liar Liar (1997), at the time of its release the fifth-highest-grossing comedy in history, the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year, the second-highest-grossing film of Jim Carrey's career, and Imagine's highest-grossing film ever.
The screenplay received an Honorable Mention (along with Fargo (1996), Million Dollar Baby (2004), The Full Monty (1997) and Catch Me If You Can (2002)) in Scr(i)pt magazine's list of the Best Scripts of the Past 10 Years.
William C. Martell published Secrets of Story: Liar, Liar, a step-by-step guide to solving screenwriting problems using Liar, Liar as a model.
Two drafts of the screenplay were published by Harvest Moon.
Paul co-wrote The Little Rascals (1994), Universal's second-highest-grossing film of the year.
He co-wrote Heartbreakers (2001), starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee, which opened #1 at the box office.
Paul's polish of The NeverEnding Story (1984) got the movie made. The beloved children's fantasy spawned two sequels, two TV series, three computer games, a stage play, a ballet, and an opera.
He is a talking head in "Dreams on Spec," the feature documentary that interviews such A-list writers as James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Gary Ross, Carrie Fisher and Ed Solomon.
Paul began his career in the entertainment industry in marketing, advertising and publicity, where his clients included Buena Vista, Carolco, Columbia, Daily Variety, Fox Broadcasting Company, Morgan Creek, William Morris, NBC, New Line, Playboy, TriStar, Twentieth Century Fox, United Artists, Warner Bros., Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jackson and Madonna.
He graduated Cum Laude from Pomona College with a double major in English and philosophy, figuring if the career in writing didn't work out, he always had philosophy to fall back on.
Current Projects:
Paul is co-writing "The Affordable [Redacted]," a fish-out-of-water crime comedy inspired by an outrageous true story that fascinated and entertained people around the world.
After directing the most successful comedy (or for that matter, drama) in the history of Santa Monica's Morgan-Wixson Theatre (founded in 1946), he made his movie-directing debut with three short comedy films he wrote: The Godfather (2023), The Vampyre (2023), and Who Guardeth the Guards (2023).
"The Vampyre" was an official selection of Comic-Con, the Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the Die Laughing Film Festival, the Awesome Con Short Film Festival and the Anthem Film Festival, where it won the Best Short Comedy Award.
Recently Paul wrote "Audition Notes," a chapter for an upcoming anthology of acting essays and exercises tentatively titled "Now Act!" The editor is Laurie Lamson, who previously published his "Hurt Me, Hurt Me! (Oh, and Help Me Make My Script Better") as a chapter in her anthology titled "Now Write!"
Paul is a sought-after script consultant. His website: ScreenMasterBooks.com/Analysis/PaulGuay.html.
