277 Quotes by Judd Apatow

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ... and let them go off on Steve. ... If something's funny, I hate for it to just sit in a basement.

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

If you find someone who's funny, of course you want to work with them again. It's like a good dance partner - you know their moves. Plus you're spending months on set, so why not be around people who crack you up?

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.

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

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

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

I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

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."