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
jobs writing hbo
My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.
fun thinking people
I think it's fun to have people see everything at once, and then I think certain shows are very well-suited to being on every week and being spread out over months.
silly writing people
I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.
thinking ideas talking
I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.
years people freak
I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won't seem creaky. It won't come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet.
blue way scripts
Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.
writing scripts
You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.
two three made
If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.
kings creativity people
At network television you could make a show like Freaks and Geeks, and even though 7 million people watch is every week, you were considered a terrible failure, and they got rid of you and staff. Now ... It's like a world where the replacements are the biggest fans in the world. It's, the Elvis Costellos of television are the winners. Creativity is king and it's very very exciting.
creativity economic-models people
We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.
successful tv-shows people
Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.
scary trying comedic
There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.
writing risk performing
I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.
thinking people comedian
I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."