277 Quotes by Judd Apatow

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.

There’s very little work where the work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

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.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that’s a very high ration.

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.

Mel, if you’re going to go up to the bell, ring it.

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.

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

I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That’s always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won’t seem creaky. It won’t come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet.