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You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

Judd Apatow

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Judd Apatow
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Television Director
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I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.
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[My] dream writers room: 'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd.
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We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.
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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 so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.
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In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.
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I'm always surprised when you do something very different that people don't get behind you more, because you're always told, Take chances! Stretch! And when you do it, sometimes people get really supportive and excited, but sometimes people go at you because you've tossed out the formula.
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I like human comedies - or dramedies. More than anything, I'm interested in people just dealing with everyday things that are difficult, and there is more than enough comedy and drama in that.
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I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.
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Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.
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A lot of times, it's easy to trim the movie 'cause you just start losing things that you thought would be there just for amusement's sake that actually are not funny. My favorite part of the process is seeing it with an audience. I do about eight previews to see how things are working.
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I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.
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I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.
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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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I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.
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I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.
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I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.
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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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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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It seems like magic is something kids start really young.
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