Judd Apatow Quotes

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.

You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

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.

I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

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

I don't think there's really observational magic.

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

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.

A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

It seems like magic is something kids start really young.

I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.

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.

I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.

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.

Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.

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.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you!

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

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.

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.