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
song writing people
I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just to have complete artistic freedom. They're just sharing their lives with you through their music. That's the same kind of work that I'm trying to do, in my own weird way.
two three needs
Some stories feel like they need more time or less time to tell. To not obsessively have to trim or add that final two or three minutes is very helpful, because you can just organically follow how the story feels.
cute believe years
I've come to believe that the simpler the title, the better. Whenever I try to get cute with it, it seems to be a problem but if it's just The 40-Year-Old Virgin, people seem to know what they're in for.
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.
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.