(cont. from previous question)I'm so busy writing these days that I don't have much time to hang out or talk on the phone. Not as much as I'd like to. And so I feel like I've fallen out of contact with the cast much more than I wanted to.

Freaks and Geeks Web: Is there any hope for a Freaks and Geeks TV movie or maybe new episodes.

Paul Feig: I wouldn't count on it. As far as I'm concerned, I'm very happy where the final episode left everyone. Without being able to do another whole season, there's really nothing I can see a two hour movie adding to the legacy of our show. I don't really want the freaks and geeks to go on some misadventure to Hawaii or Australia, which is what most of those movies seem to end up being. I like the idea that we don't know what happened to the gang and that we have to imagine where they've gone and how their lives have turned out. I always hate when they revisit a show's characters years later. It's a letdown to see what they have the characters doing because it's never what I wanted them to do. If I ended up showing that Lindsay was a performance artist living in Greenwich Village, some people would think it was cool but most would be a bit let down. It's the same way for me in life. I avoided going to my high school reunion because, frankly, I don't want to know what happened to the people I went to high school with. People are just living their lives and what business is it of mine to find out and then very probably judge what they're doing? But, that all said, I guess anything's possible and if I ever come up with an idea I love and someone wants to make it, then it could happen. I have to admit that I'd like to write more stuff for Lindsay. I feel that her course through life could be quite interesting and poetic.

Freaks and Geeks Web: Any closing comments?

Paul Feig: I loved making Freaks and Geeks, and I still have to pinch myself that we were able to. TV these days doesn't really embrace a show like this, much less fund it, and so for us to have been able to make 18 episodes of this exactly the way we wanted to is unheard of. I developed a show last year after Freaks about a large family and felt it was every bit as good as Freaks and the network had zero interest in doing it. Their notes were always that it wasn't big enough, that it wasn't wacky enough, that everything had to be bigger and that my storylines were too tame. But that's what Freaks was, real stories about real people acting real. And that's why NBC ended up cancelling us. Our ratings were never great but they would always start to go up whenever they would leave us on the air for more than a few weeks in a row. But the head of the network, Garth Ancier, simply didn't get the show, didn't know why our characters couldn't have "bigger victories" at the end of each episode (which is what they want you to have in TV shows -- we always felt that our characters' victories were getting through the episode with their humor and dignity in tact but that doesn't fly at a big network), and ended up wanting to get us off the schedule. A show with the critical support of ours will sometimes be given a shot at a second season if the network heads are behind it. But if they aren't ... well, you saw what can happen. So, that's why I'm constantly happy that we made what we made and that people have gotten a chance to find it and enjoy it. Because if no one ever got to see these shows, that would have been monumentally depressing to me.