110+ Judd Apatow Quotes On Judging Ors, Judo And Judging

Judd Apatow is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. He is best known for his work in comedy films and television series, such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Girls. He has also directed several documentaries and stand-up specials, including The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Judd Apatow on judging ors, judo, judging.

Top 10 Judd Apatow Quotes

1. 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.
2. College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
3. We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.
4. In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.
5. I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.
6. I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.
7. Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
8. Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi, they're pretty personality-less.
9. The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.
10. I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Judd Apatow Short Quotes

• There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.
• I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.
• Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.
• There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.
• I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.
• I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.
• Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.
• With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.
• Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.
• Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

Judd Apatow Quotes About Love

I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me. — Judd Apatow

My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me. — Judd Apatow

If a woman says, I love myself; I love my body; I'm comfortable with my life, comfortable with my mistakes, and I deserve a seat at every table and everything should be completely equal, there are guys who lose their minds. — Judd Apatow

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it. — Judd Apatow

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media. — Judd Apatow

I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more. — Judd Apatow

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies. — Judd Apatow

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there. — Judd Apatow

I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period. — Judd Apatow

I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families. — Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow Quotes About People

People talk about universal intelligence ... I'm reticent to believe almost anything, just because my parents weren't religious at all, but that's when I feel it. People talk about being in the "flow." — Judd Apatow

In my beginnings, those nos were ever-present-even today, those nos are ever-present-and it's the workaround. I always found a workaround for people who turned their back to me. It's a way of being persistent that makes them take notice. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes. — Judd Apatow

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors. — Judd Apatow

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard. — Judd Apatow

There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person. — Judd Apatow

Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers. — Judd Apatow

Penn [Jillette] and Teller and I get along very well. We can call each other and say, "I'm working on this classic effect. Please, I'd like to do it for a while." We'll all respect it. There are people we don't get along with, but mostly there is a respect amongst the group. — Judd Apatow

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star. — Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow Quotes About Funny

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

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do. — Judd Apatow

I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young person with no political point of view or life experience, it was as funny as you can imagine. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Unlawful Entry, was really funny. The movie was a little lighter when we first came on, a little more like What About Bob? or something. — Judd Apatow

I was in the recording studio when Pink was recording for a part of the gay rights anthem. It was just amazing to watch her perform. She's just such an incredible singer. She so funny, and so smart, yet she's doing it for this silly, silly song. — Judd Apatow

Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and also hilarious - in a fun way and in a sad way. That seems to connect with people. — Judd Apatow

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor. — Judd Apatow

A lot of times, it's easy to trim the movie 'cause you just start losing things that you thought would be there just for amusement's sake that actually are not funny. My favorite part of the process is seeing it with an audience. I do about eight previews to see how things are working. — Judd Apatow

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen. — Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow Quotes About Hard

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. — Judd Apatow

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

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!" — Judd Apatow

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do. — Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow Quotes About Making

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive. — Judd Apatow

When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you! — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

People like everything to work out, and anytime you don't make everything work out perfectly, you really are fighting against what most people are going to the movies for, especially in the summer. — Judd Apatow

Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice. — Judd Apatow

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget. — Judd Apatow

I hear Amy Schumer on Howard Stern, and I think, "I wish there was a movie that starred her, because she's so interesting," and then at some point I go, "I guess I have to get involved, because it's not happening right now. Maybe I should help try to make that happen." — Judd Apatow

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life. — Judd Apatow

I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say. — Judd Apatow

I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like about movies is they can tell that most movies are a product, and they don't mean that much to the people who make them. — Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow Famous Quotes And Sayings

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

I like to shoot scenes where I can see the beginning, middle and end of the entire scene. But, when you edit a movie together, you can just cut right into the middle. You don't need to see them walk into the room and put their jacket on the chair. There's always a lot of shoe leather that you can remove. — Judd Apatow

I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So they created a rule where the bar, to get your name added to the writing credits, if you've done a revision, is very high if you're also the producer or director. — Judd Apatow

I used to watch 10 hours of television a night, my entire childhood. And I don't think it did all good things to me. I certainly still have social problems that are a result of being in my room alone too much. — Judd Apatow

The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first. — Judd Apatow

You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're the Coen brothers, and it ends with somebody getting shot in the head. — Judd Apatow

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys. — Judd Apatow

I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor. — Judd Apatow

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers. — Judd Apatow

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters. — Judd Apatow

I don't think there's really observational magic. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy. — Judd Apatow

I had a very specific type of terrible network experience where I was told that people like Seth Rogen and Jason Segel weren't leads, so it truly drove me mad. So to be trusted is all I value. — Judd Apatow

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life. — Judd Apatow

I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd. — Judd Apatow

I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it. — Judd Apatow

I was a guest on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld, and I interviewed him when I was 15 years old-those moments really blow your mind. — Judd Apatow

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making. — Judd Apatow

When the entire country was watching one show there was a major discussion happening; is it possible for that to happen in a 1 million channel universe? — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just know how to hook into the pipe. He played music with Jimi Hendrix and felt that he was personally connected to some higher intelligence or creativity. — Judd Apatow

Back in the old days, everyone was shocked if a band had a sponsor for their tour. Now, Bob Dylan can do a commercial for Victoria's Secret and people don't really blink; the Beatles' songs are in all sorts of commercials these days and it doesn't seem to offend anybody. The times are changing. — Judd Apatow

I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do." — Judd Apatow

When Jim Carrey signed on to star in [The Cable Guy], and then they asked me to produce it, I made a very brief plea to direct - which was rejected really as quickly as anything can be. — Judd Apatow

I literally cannot remember one joke. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach. — Judd Apatow

No matter how much you love someone, on a bad day, you could say something terrible. All of the little things that you are saving to say, that you're mad about but never express, sometimes come out, all at once. We all have these terrible moments. That's just part of being human. — Judd Apatow

I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it. — Judd Apatow

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me. — Judd Apatow

I feel like it's a golden age for television. — Judd Apatow

I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over. — Judd Apatow

I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking. — Judd Apatow

I think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the same thing every time." — Judd Apatow

I think watching too much TV as a kid led me to being very uncomfortable in new situations. To this day, when I drop my kids off at school, I still feel like I'm in 9th grade and I'm uncomfortable and insecure. Like anyone is paying any attention. — Judd Apatow

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from. — Judd Apatow

I've made movies on every part of the spectrum, and you do understand when you go into certain movies that you're trying to elicit a certain kind of response from the audience, and people get a real sense of satisfaction when they're rooting for a character and the character pulls it off. — Judd Apatow

I feel like everybody's waiting for a job y'know, you can make a movie on your phone. And so there really is no reason to worry about how to get in with people- and you can do that, there's a lot to learn working for people -but you can just make a movie, where in the old days that was completely impossible. — Judd Apatow

I started a radio show where I interviewed comics. And I interviewed Leno and Seinfeld and John Candy and Father Guido Sarducci and Garry Shandling, all when I was 16. And they kind of told me what to do. — Judd Apatow

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school. — Judd Apatow

I start thinking about the next movie before it's a success, so I can never have one moment of happiness or peace. I'm instantly thinking about the next one. — Judd Apatow

It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone like Jim Carrey, and then he would get on stage fearlessly and tear the house down. That's something I always enjoyed. It also allowed me to not be terrified. — Judd Apatow

I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent. — Judd Apatow

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old. — Judd Apatow

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job. — Judd Apatow

When I was very young, I started to make friends with much, much older people. So when I was twenty, my friends were fifty, and I never really went through forty because I would watch them die and I would feel younger. So you make friends with older people and you will always feel young no matter what. — Judd Apatow

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in! — Judd Apatow

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities. — Judd Apatow

A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes. — Judd Apatow

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me. — Judd Apatow

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done. — Judd Apatow

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite. — Judd Apatow

It seems like magic is something kids start really young. — Judd Apatow

That's very important to me as well: presentation and how people perceive you, the visual of how things look, your posture. I learned that from [Bob] Fosse and Jerome Robbins, from all the great theater directors and the Busby Berkeleys. You overdeliver: visually, emotionally. — Judd Apatow

You know, I'm a big comedy fan. — Judd Apatow

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. — Judd Apatow

A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there. — Judd Apatow

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great. — Judd Apatow

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now. — Judd Apatow

Back then, you seemed like a crazy person when you were trying to push the boundaries of network TV. People looked at you, and they were offended by the fact that you didn't follow the generic rules of what was expected on network TV. — Judd Apatow

Everyone is wounded. No one is healthy enough to never screw up, when you're in combat. But, I like to show that, and I like to show how people get back from that. You have to forgive each other. When you're in the middle of a long-term commitment, the essence of it is that everyone is going to have good days and bad days, and it's about how you continue to rejoin forces. — Judd Apatow

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way. — Judd Apatow

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life. — Judd Apatow

I still feel like a nerd. — Judd Apatow

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair. — Judd Apatow

You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it. — Judd Apatow

Life Lessons by Judd Apatow

1. Judd Apatow emphasizes the importance of taking risks and pushing boundaries in order to create something unique and original.
2. He also teaches us to be honest and open about our own personal experiences and to use them to create meaningful stories.
3. Lastly, he shows us that it is possible to make something funny and entertaining while still being thoughtful and sincere.