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The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.
Judd Apatow
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Judd Apatow
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
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I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.
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I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young person with no political point of view or life experience, it was as funny as you can imagine.
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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 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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You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.
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People like everything to work out, and anytime you don't make everything work out perfectly, you really are fighting against what most people are going to the movies for, especially in the summer.
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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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My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.
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It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.
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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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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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Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice.
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If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.
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I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.
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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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If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.
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You know, I'm a big comedy fan.
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There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, Entertain me fast!
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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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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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