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I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.
Judd Apatow
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Judd Apatow
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 6
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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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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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Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.
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For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.
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If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.
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I started a radio show where I interviewed comics. And I interviewed Leno and Seinfeld and John Candy and Father Guido Sarducci and Garry Shandling, all when I was 16. And they kind of told me what to do.
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I literally cannot remember one joke.
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I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.
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So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.
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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'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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Penn [Jillette] and Teller and I get along very well. We can call each other and say, I'm working on this classic effect. Please, I'd like to do it for a while. We'll all respect it. There are people we don't get along with, but mostly there is a respect amongst the group.
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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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I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.
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I feel like it's a golden age for television.
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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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I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
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It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone like Jim Carrey, and then he would get on stage fearlessly and tear the house down. That's something I always enjoyed. It also allowed me to not be terrified.
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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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When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you!
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