Name: Judd Apatow Breaks Down His Career, from 'Superbad' to 'Freaks and Geeks' | Vanity Fair
Uploaded: 2020-12-15T21:05:24.000Z
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Gerund

People are great when it's their 40th movie,

but it's different when it's their first movie

and they have so much energy and passion.

When you get to you 40th Harrison Ford movie,

he tends not to give you that time, and he shouldn't.

- [sighs] We are great. [coffee splashes]

- Oh, thank God the rain just stopped, eh?

One day, he just walked in my office and said,

"You're doing the next one," which was terrifying.

The weird thing was a few weeks before that,

and a psychic was hanging around the office

And she said to me, "You're gonna have a flood at your house

I saw that psychic for years. [jazzy piano music]

Once, that psychic told us to be careful driving in Hawai'i

- Yeah, that's not the word I'm looking for.

- How Freaks and Geeks happened was I said

to my good friend, Paul Fink, "Do you have any ideas?"

And then one day, he just handed me an envelope

No one ever hands you a script that's great.

And you go, "All right, I guess we'll just make that."

While in production, we thought it was going well

that some of the people who ran the network didn't like it.

So we always felt like it was gonna end at any moment.

that they were gonna cancel us at any moment

- North Hollywood's a pilot we did in 2002, I think.

It was about a bunch of people who wanted

to be in show businesses who were struggling,

So it was Amy Poehler and her day job was working

and Kevin Heart, who had a lot of money 'cause he was

in a beer commercial that was questionable in its content.

We made this show, probably, mainly inspired

and we really had the best time making it, but in the middle

of making it, we heard that ABC changed their theory

about what they wanted the network to be.

And they wanted it to be more retro, like Happy Days.

"but we can tell all these people are gonna be stars."

And they never called, they showed no interest in anybody.

but I don't have money to pay for the rent right now.

I was hoping you could float me for a couple of days.

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