Judd: I remember, a girl broke up with me once
and she said
“One day you’re gonna realize
how little you know right now.”
And I still don’t know what she means!
Is it me?
It might be me.
Hi, this is Judd Apatow
and this is Watch With Me.
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(group cheers)
A lot of movies are very high in concept.
I like movies that are very low concept.
Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl
trying to deal with the fact
that they're gonna have a baby is enough.
Ben Stone: This will be coming out of you
in seven months.
(Ben laughs)
Judd: And that’s all I need.
Life is hard.
Here's how we try to get through it.
Pete: Do you ever wonder how
somebody could even like you?
- All the time man, like every day,
I wonder how you like me.
Judd: And a lot of those movies
are about that.
Can you drop your baggage
and just be present
and be there for someone and be in love?
Ben (over the phone): Whatever you wanna do
I’m gonna do, you know?
It’s—I’m on board.
Yaaaay.
Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto: Yeah, yeah.
All right, all right, bye.
Sydney Adamu: Hi, hello.
Carmy: Hi.
Sydney: I’m Sydney.
I called about the sous position.
Judd: I’m so glad that they’re
making more of The Bear
which is about a young man
whose brother dies
and so he takes over the family business.
Sydney: I know who you are.
Carmy: Oh yeah?
Sydney: I mean, you’re the most excellent CdC
at the most excellent restaurant
in the entire United States of America.
So, what are you doing here, I guess?
Judd: I relate because
my parents owned a restaurant
and I loved washing dishes.
It was a much simpler life back then.
Carmy (shouting orders): We’re firing!
Seventy-six beefs
thirty-four chickens, OK?
Twelve french fries
twelve mash, right now!
Judd: Being a director is like being a chef
because you feel stressed out.
(cooking pans crash)
Judd: You’re responsible, and quietly
everyone who works for you
probably hates you a little bit.
(laughs)
(electricity crackles)
(loud, droning whir)
Milchick: One day down.
Judd: I love Severance.
It’s so smart
and it’s funny, and it’s political.
Helly (on screen): I give consent
for my perceptual chronologies
to be surgically split.
Judd: There’s a group of people
they work at an office
and they’ve had some procedure done
which makes it so that when they go home
they don’t remember anything
that happened at work.
And when they’re at work
they don’t know anything
that happens when they’re at home.
Helly: So I’ll never leave here.
Mark: You’ll leave at five.
Judd: Would I do this?
I mean, I couldn’t do it because for me
everything overlaps.
Milchick: Remember, you’re gonna be
looking at this every day.
Say “gratitude!”
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Kumail Nanjiani: This is a picture of me and my mother.
I’m seven years old.
Judd: The Big Sick started with
Kumail Nanjiani coming in
and I think he pitched me three ideas
but one of them was the true story
of his relationship with his wife, Emily.
Kumail: When did you get married?
When did you get divorced?
How tall is he?
Did you love him?
Judd: They dated, and then
she had a health problem
and wound up in a coma.
(sad piano music) And even though they didn’t
(sad piano music) know each other that well
he had to be there and support her.
And that led to many years
of them writing the script
and trying to figure out
a way to make that a movie.
How do you make that fun?
To sit at a hospital waiting for someone
to wake up from a coma.
Kumail: Apparently, there
are good and bad comas
and the kind that they put her in
are definitely
like, the good kind of coma.
Judd: When I met Kumail
we talked a lot about the fact
that he didn’t feel represented
in movies and on television.
And I thought about myself
and I thought, They were there for me.
And that gave me the confidence
to try to do a lot of things in life.
I felt like I would be accepted.
Tamara: Oh my God, do you guys
remember straight people?
Cherry: Yeah, they had a nice run.
Judd: Billy Eichner and Nick Stoller said
they wanted to do a gay rom-com.
And I just thought that
was a fantastic idea.
It’s something that
we haven’t seen enough of.
Aaron (thinking to himself): We can be emotionally
unavailable together.
Bobby (thinking to himself): Maybe we can be
emotionally unavailable together?
Who’s writing your texts?
Maroon 5?
Judd: I am so happy to be married
and not having to go on an app.
I love not having to meet people
because for me it was always a disaster.
Elizabeth Egan: This is Lena; she’s a good
friend of mine from work.
We were in the neighborhood
and she had to pick up her car
and we’re getting breakfast
before we go in.
So did you wanna go?
We’re gonna go eat. Let’s go.
Barry Egan: Yeah, I can’t.
Judd: Punch-Drunk Love is
I guess, a romantic comedy?
I mean, it’s Paul Thomas Anderson
so it’s completely original.
Lena Leonard: I’m gonna go and eat tomorrow night.
Do you want to go with me?
Barry: Sure.
Lena: Do you want to pick me up?
Barry: Sure.
Judd: The character that
Adam Sandler plays, Barry
when he made it, he told me that
in some of his acting choices
he was doing things that
he observed me do
and I can see where he is doing it.
There’s a scene where he is
trying to talk to his date
and he just starts bombing
and getting nervous.
Barry: I was listening to these
morning DJs this morning
and they always have couples that call in
and, and talk about their problems.
Judd: And he must have witnessed me
do that with women a hundred times.
(gentle guitar music) But I feel such a kinship
to the character
and his struggles to express himself
and get out of his own head
that it just hits me very, very hard.
There’s an amazing scene
where they’ll reunite
and it’s just as great as
you can do that moment.
I’m a sucker for that kinda
you know, thing in movies.
You can put it right now
on a TV; I’ll cry in three seconds.
Even though in every romantic comedy
we know they’re gonna wind up
together at the end
it’s just fun to see the journey
to people figuring each other out.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
See my watchlist and more on Google TV.
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