Top 20 Judd Apatow Quotes

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

I still feel like a nerd.

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?

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.

It’s so difficult to shock America these days.

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.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I don’t know if you can be a born-again virgin.

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.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

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

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.

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

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it’s men.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

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.