The Vulture Transcript: Judd Apatow on His Canceled Shows, Upcoming Movies, and Girls
"I’ve always loved stories about trying to figure out who you are and awkwardness."
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"I’ve always loved stories about trying to figure out who you are and awkwardness."
"Bushwick is really cool."
And shares his thoughts on movies and comics these days.
The season's dark turns, his role in the writers' room, and the younger cast's drunken escapades in Chicago.
The duo discusses the horse fatalities, the protests, and where the show would have gone.
This new batch of episodes will be more cinematic, and the show will move more quickly, he promises.
"I wish movies mattered more. I wish they were more influential."
"I have no desire to impose some preconceived idea of Cronenbergness on the project."
"We never fight on set ... but on the ride to the set we’re sharing a car and he’s like, 'We need to go get juice to protect our health.' And I’m like, 'No, we need to get coffee.'"
"I've never cared for the landing strip; I think it should be all or nothing."
"I'm not living in a frat house with a bong plastered to the table."
"Oh yeah, so then we made 'Drive,' I was instrumental in making the film, sure. But so was REO Speedwagon."
"Everybody wants to know, 'Are you thinking about it? Are you thinking about it?' I’ll put it to you this way: I don’t dislike children as much as I used to."
"When I was coming up, it was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan and Reese Witherspoon ... then this sort of bromance, slacker thing took over."
A candid chat with a comic who has been laughed with and laughed at — and is surprisingly upbeat about it all.
"I'd be sort of up late and talking a lot more, and if I was up late talking and drinking, I was probably smoking a lot."
"It's homoerotic. And I think they know it, and they don't want to acknowledge it too much."
"Everybody's best foot forward."
"Poehler can pretty much curse any of the dudes on the show under the table."