277 Quotes by Judd Apatow

I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.

Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.

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.

I've made movies on every part of the spectrum, and you do understand when you go into certain movies that you're trying to elicit a certain kind of response from the audience, and people get a real sense of satisfaction when they're rooting for a character and the character pulls it off.

All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.

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 think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the same thing every time."

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.

It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.