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I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.
Judd Apatow
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Judd Apatow
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
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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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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 don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.
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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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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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I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.
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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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All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.
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It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.
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I literally cannot remember one joke.
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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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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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I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.
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I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.
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I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.
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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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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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If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.
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The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.
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I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.
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