277 Quotes by Judd Apatow

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."

"'Deadwood.' I could have watched that forever."

When I was very young, I started to make friends with much, much older people. So when I was twenty, my friends were fifty, and I never really went through forty because I would watch them die and I would feel younger. So you make friends with older people and you will always feel young no matter what.

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.