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I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
Judd Apatow
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Judd Apatow
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
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I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.
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The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.
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There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.
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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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You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're the Coen brothers, and it ends with somebody getting shot in the head.
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I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Unlawful Entry, was really funny. The movie was a little lighter when we first came on, a little more like What About Bob? or something.
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People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.
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When I was very young, I started to make friends with much, much older people. So when I was twenty, my friends were fifty, and I never really went through forty because I would watch them die and I would feel younger. So you make friends with older people and you will always feel young no matter what.
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I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: You know what I hate is ... I don't think that ever existed.
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Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
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Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.
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I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies.
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The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.
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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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Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.
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If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.
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In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.
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Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.
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You know, I'm a big comedy fan.
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I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, Do you have any ideas. If they do, we just start thinking things around.
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