Quotes from Judd Apatow

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.

It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

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.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

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."

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time.

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