Judd Apatow

And I think you just pay attention in a different way to the world and you don't feel safe and you're looking to understand why the world is the way it is.

So I think it makes you an observer in a lot of ways because you feel like, wait, this isn't working out the way I wanted it to.

Why?

Well, definitely I thought...

I need to figure out how to survive in the world.

What am I gonna do?

So it made me more obsessed with the one interest I had, comedy, and trying to figure out, well, how do you get a job?

How do you get in?

So I had way too much energy as a really little kid to figure out both the creative side and the business side.

How does an open mic night work?

How do you get hired to write a screenplay?

How do you become a director or an actor?

But that was safety.

Because I thought, I don't know if I can trust...

the people around me to take care of me.

And so I'm going to have to take care of myself.

And that was probably a big exaggeration, but as a little kid, it felt very visceral.

Well, you get rewarded for your worst qualities.

So if you're obsessive or you're a workaholic, it does work for you.

But it doesn't work for your life.