Judd Apatow Quotes

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

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.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

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.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi, they're pretty personality-less.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.

The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.

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.

Literally, my last call was with David Blaine, congratulating him on his show. I have a camaraderie with David.

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

You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

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.

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

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

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.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

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

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media.

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

The little details really connect for people in ways I never realized before.I think that's why some of the movies have done well, because people are relating to things that I'm willing to expose.

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

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.

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.

I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.