Judd Apatow Quotes

If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.

Judd Apatow

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• Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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  • Truth
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• You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Remember
  • You
  • Working

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Play
  • Taken

• Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

  

  Beau Bridges
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  • Father
  • Myself

• I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Movie
  • Problem
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• I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • American
  • Movie
  • Years

• The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • You

• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Financial
  • Working
  • Economy

• I literally hate working out.

  

  Olivia Munn
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• I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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  • Home

• To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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• They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

  

  Chevy Chase
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• I remember going to London with my father in 1968 to see '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I just soaked in that movie. To me, that was real; it was going to happen.

  

  Brian Binnie
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• 'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'

  

  Marlon Wayans
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  • House

• I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
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• 'My Fair Godmother's' movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'

  

  Janette Rallison
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• My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

  

  Harvey Keitel
  • Movie
  • Advice
  • Actor

• Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Character
  • Growth
  • Facts

• It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
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  • Regret

• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood
  • Child

• Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Music
  • Country
  • Attention

• If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.

  

  Judd Apatow
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