American - Director | December 6, 1967 -
There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?
Judd Apatow
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I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.
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To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
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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.
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I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.
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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.
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For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.
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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.
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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.
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It's so difficult to shock America these days.
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College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
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I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.
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