Latest Mike Judge Quotes from Interviews

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• Sometimes I go to a test screening and look at the audience in line, and I start to go, "Okay, I bet this is going to work, and this isn't going to work." It's weird, but just going and facing the music and putting it out before a crowd, even before it starts playing, that exercise of putting it up on a screen for people makes you realize things even before it starts rolling. It's really weird. I've heard other people say that, too.

  Mike Judge

  Exercise, People, Realizing

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you make movies, you've picked the most expensive art form, and somebody has to pay for it. You kind of owe it to them to at least let them know how you expect to make it as accessible to as many people as you can, given the story you're telling.

  Mike Judge

  Art, People, Kind

  Source: film.avclub.com

• It kind of hit me at some point during the process that most people in the film business - not just the executives, the people who make them, too - tend to come from pretty upper-class backgrounds. If they go work a job, it's to have that experience, that sort of thing. After they graduate college, they have time to go visit Europe and take some time off and get their heads together. That kind of thing, I sure didn't have.

  Mike Judge

  College, People, Together

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When I worked in those offices, it was just irritating to me that somebody sat there and designed this place, never thinking that you would walk from here to there, and they didn't care. The one guy designs it, gives it to the other guy, he looks at it; no one thinks about all the people that gotta walk through it. So I think the best way to show those banal moments is to be just flat and wide.

  Mike Judge

  Thinking, Giving, Office

  Source: film.avclub.com

• You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.

  Mike Judge

  Laughing, Different, Ass

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

  Mike Judge

  Real, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.

  Mike Judge

  Crazy, Real, Thinking

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.

• I'm sorry I can't get into Scooby Doo on any level.

  Mike Judge

  Sorry, Levels, Scooby Doo

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.

• I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.

  Mike Judge

  Eight, People, Awkward

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.

• There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

  Mike Judge

  Family Guy, Cells, Poison

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.