Judd Apatow Quotes - Page 9

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• I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say.

  Judd Apatow

  War, People, Stories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

  Judd Apatow

  New York, Looks, Hysterical

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."

  Judd Apatow

  Intelligent, Thinking, Hbo

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.

  Judd Apatow

  Jumping, Ideas, Scary

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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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.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Thinking, House

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.

  Judd Apatow

  Special, Littles, Firsts

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

  Judd Apatow

  Fans, Comedy, Bigs

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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• I hear Amy Schumer on Howard Stern, and I think, "I wish there was a movie that starred her, because she's so interesting," and then at some point I go, "I guess I have to get involved, because it's not happening right now. Maybe I should help try to make that happen."

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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• I was in the recording studio when Pink was recording for a part of the gay rights anthem. It was just amazing to watch her perform. She's just such an incredible singer. She so funny, and so smart, yet she's doing it for this silly, silly song.

  Judd Apatow

  Song, Smart, Silly

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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• I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.

  Judd Apatow

  Morning, Kids, Home

  "A Conversation with Director Judd Apatow". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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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.

  Judd Apatow

  Father, Radio, Kind

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

  Judd Apatow

  Holocaust, Parent, Ruins

  Judd Apatow (2015). “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy”, p.386, Random House

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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.

  Judd Apatow

  Anchorman, Wall, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.

  Judd Apatow

  Passion, People, One Day

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life. That's part of life, it's a pretty big part of life, but it's not all of life.

  Judd Apatow

  Fighting, People, Behaviour

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Twenties, Watches

  Source: screenrant.com

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• You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.

  Judd Apatow

  Simple, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people even watch one episode. So it's not like a movie theater where you want to the movies to be shorter so you can go urinate. You can pause and urinate at home, and if something is longer, you're allowed to stop and eat breakfast and then watch eight more episodes.

  Judd Apatow

  Home, Different Experiences, Eight

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.

  Judd Apatow

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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• If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

  Judd Apatow

  Trying, Holes, Plugs

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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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.

  Judd Apatow

  Here And There, Gigs, Periods

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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