Judd Apatow Quotes

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I always do something that I've never done before.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.