Judd Apatow Quotes - Page 6

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• I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• When the entire country was watching one show there was a major discussion happening; is it possible for that to happen in a 1 million channel universe?

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  Country, Shows, Discussion

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Hbo

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

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  Thinking, Youth, Coming Out

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

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  Names, Band, Remember

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people even watch one episode. So it's not like a movie theater where you want to the movies to be shorter so you can go urinate. You can pause and urinate at home, and if something is longer, you're allowed to stop and eat breakfast and then watch eight more episodes.

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  Home, Different Experiences, Eight

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

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  Holocaust, Parent, Ruins

  Judd Apatow (2015). “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy”, p.386, Random House

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• The only thing I knew in the world as a little kid was comedy. And no other kids in my school cared about it at all. There was no one to talk about it with. You know, we're in a geek culture now where comedy is so giant. I'm one of the people that, you know, works on Funny or Die. And there is just a giant culture of comedy nerds. But back then, I was alone, and I had a little confidence about it because I felt like, this is my thing, this is the only thing that only I know about.

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  School, Kids, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Even now if I see someone working out, in great shape, like a 40-year-old guy with his shirt off jogging I always think, "Look at that idiot." That's why everyone in my movie is kind of goofy because I'm a champion of the goofball. What sucks is I have to work out now not to die. I was always happy not working out because I never wanted to be someone who worked out to look good, but now I have to try to not die, which is such a drag.

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  Thinking, Work Out, Guy

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It's a pretty humiliating thing when you get picked last every day in gym class and then at lunchtime all the kids play sports and you get picked last. At the time I just thought, "This is awful," because it defines you as a weak person. It defines you with girls and if you're bad at sports, you get into this funny cycle where the ball never gets to you because now you're in the worst position, you're in deep right field, so you can never prove that you got better, so the cycle lasts forever.

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  Girl, Sports, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I was a guest on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld, and I interviewed him when I was 15 years old-those moments really blow your mind.

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  Coffee, Blow, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you!

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  Incredibles

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

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  Passion, People, Trying

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I like working with people on their first movies. I think that you never get that level of effort again. And I think that most people only have a couple of amazing stories from their lives, so you're getting the best of them.

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  Couple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I loved working in stand-up, and I always dreamed that I could make a movie about it. I didn't know if I would have the courage to, because if you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life. They're still mad about movies made 25 years ago. But it was always a dream of mine, and I was glad I finally came up with an idea that allowed me to explore it in such a way that it's not all about stand-up, but stand-up creates a great backdrop for another type of story.

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  Dream, Mad, Comedian

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

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  Serious, Jokes

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.

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  People, World, Comedy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The little details really connect for people in ways I never realized before.I think that's why some of the movies have done well, because people are relating to things that I'm willing to expose.

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  Thinking, People, Details

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I was bad at sports and picked last every day. I couldn't quite figure out what my role was in the social order, so I decided I was interested in comedy. And what was then interesting was, nobody else was interested in it at all. I didn't find one friend who was interested in comedy until I moved to California and met other comedians. And suddenly I knew hundreds of people who knew as much about SCTV as I did. But it took me 20 years to find those people.

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  Sports, People, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

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  People, Stories, Realizing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

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  People, Obsessive, Performers

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I hosted the Producer's Guild Awards, and it went well, and I was very happy in the moment, and it was a fun night. But I wake up the next day like someone who did crack the night before and told off the world, and I'm ashamed of the whole idea that anyone should listen to me, or the idea that I need that much approval.

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  Fun, Night, Next Day

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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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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  Next Day, People, Matter

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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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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  Drama, People, Everyday

  Source: www.etonline.com

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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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  Girl, Stars, Lost Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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