Judd Apatow Quotes

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

With 'The Crazies,' we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you're one of the three stars.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.

When censorship is intelligent, it will stop a film before it is made. If not, it is too late.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.