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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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If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.
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I feel like it's a golden age for television.
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So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.
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Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.
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Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You’re in a constant debate with a gun to your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it’s hard to win the arguments.
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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 just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.
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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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[My] dream writers room: 'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd.
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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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Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.
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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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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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I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.
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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 everybody's waiting for a job y'know, you can make a movie on your phone. And so there really is no reason to worry about how to get in with people- and you can do that, there's a lot to learn working for people -but you can just make a movie, where in the old days that was completely impossible.
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I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.
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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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The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.
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Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi, they're pretty personality-less.
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