Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatowis an American producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he produced and developed the cult television series Freaks and Geeks and directed and produced The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This Is 40, and Trainwreck...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth6 December 1967
CitySyosset, NY
CountryUnited States of America
fun people creative
I bring people on to the movies to type and to help punch up and look at things. But a lot of it is, you want fun people to be around, to put you in a good mood, to try and access your creative place.
forever
"'Deadwood.' I could have watched that forever."
successful guy tears
The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.
hysterical look-up
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.
special helping
I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.
ask audience helpful incredibly laughing movies screen screwed testing
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.
ended
My first thought when 'Wedding Crashers' ended was, 'Oh, my God. We are so much dirtier than they are,'
vision
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.
box drives men
If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.
giving people trying
Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.
fun school college
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
trying done communicate
For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.
nerd geek
Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.
guy good-guy live-by
Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.