Judd Apatow Quotes
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It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.
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Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.
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I was very combative as a creative person at that time [while The Ben Stiller Show]. I didn't understand how to play politics with the studios. I didn't know how to creatively collaborate with the people who were paying the bills, and that came up all the time on every project I was doing, and it took me a really long time to figure out how to collaborate in a healthy way.
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There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.
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Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.
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I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So they created a rule where the bar, to get your name added to the writing credits, if you've done a revision, is very high if you're also the producer or director.
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I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.
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Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.
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With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.
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The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.
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My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.
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I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
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Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi, they're pretty personality-less.
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Back then, you seemed like a crazy person when you were trying to push the boundaries of network TV. People looked at you, and they were offended by the fact that you didn't follow the generic rules of what was expected on network TV.
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I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.
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I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.
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When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.
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I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young person with no political point of view or life experience, it was as funny as you can imagine.
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The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.
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I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.
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I like human comedies - or dramedies. More than anything, I'm interested in people just dealing with everyday things that are difficult, and there is more than enough comedy and drama in that.
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There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.
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Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.
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We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.
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If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.
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Literally, my last call was with David Blaine, congratulating him on his show. I have a camaraderie with David.
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I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.
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I think it's fun to have people see everything at once, and then I think certain shows are very well-suited to being on every week and being spread out over months.
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Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.
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To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
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