Judd Apatow Quotes

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

The best ideas start as conversations.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.

Sometimes when you chat about something, a few ideas come up, you go this way or that way in training.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along quicker cause they'll come up with something and you'll be like, "It would have taken me forever to get to that point!" Because you're talking together, your brains are moving faster.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

You have this idea that you think is awesome. You want to have that broadest group you possibly can. You don't want to just talk to 1 type of person and learn that, you want to get familiar with the space.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.