277 Quotes by Judd Apatow

"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."

"Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice."

"I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have."

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

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

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

"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."

"I remember the Time review [on the Hit and Run]said that there wasn't one laugh in it. And I had watched the movie 50 times with audiences, and it always played great. There was certainly a moment where you could tell the audience was like, "Wow, this is really getting weird.""

"I like to shoot scenes where I can see the beginning, middle and end of the entire scene. But, when you edit a movie together, you can just cut right into the middle. You don't need to see them walk into the room and put their jacket on the chair. There's always a lot of shoe leather that you can remove."

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