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People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

Judd Apatow

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Judd Apatow
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
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The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow. They were saying that none of it is fair.
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I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.
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I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.
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Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.
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Some stories feel like they need more time or less time to tell. To not obsessively have to trim or add that final two or three minutes is very helpful, because you can just organically follow how the story feels.
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I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.
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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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I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in Stripes. Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.
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It seems like magic is something kids start really young.
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In my work, there is a lot of storytelling. The storytelling is not a new thing. Back in the [Howard] Thurston days, the [Harry] Houdini days, the [Harry] Blackstone days, it was stories, but the stories were, We're going to the Egyptian temples, and we're going to vanish the Prince of Thebes, and, On my last trip to the Orient ...
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If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!
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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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Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.
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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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'Deadwood.' I could have watched that forever.
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I remember the Time review [on the Hit and Run]said that there wasn't one laugh in it. And I had watched the movie 50 times with audiences, and it always played great. There was certainly a moment where you could tell the audience was like, Wow, this is really getting weird.
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When Jim Carrey signed on to star in [The Cable Guy], and then they asked me to produce it, I made a very brief plea to direct - which was rejected really as quickly as anything can be.
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I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.
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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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[My] dream writers room: 'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd.
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