Judd Apatow
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He had a sort of casualness about it.
Like it was almost like, well, I'm dying.
Here we go.
He wasn't.
I would have wrapped my legs around it and hugged the thing and waited for the paramedics to push me off.
Well, he probably had moments like that before where some strategy worked.
worked and it just didn't work and as a kid i would have nightmares about that and you know the nuclear war fears and then my parents got divorced and there was a lot of hysteria around and it gave me this feeling like you better be on your fucking shit you better you better get a job you better have a long plan you are not safe and
What it did was it helped me be a good producer.
It helped me be forward thinking.
I guess that's what bothers me about Trump is I'm very forward thinking.
A year before I shoot a movie, I'm thinking about what could go wrong with the movie, where we're going to go over budget, where we're going to go over time.
So when there's a guy who doesn't think about where the pollution gets us in five, ten years, it panics me.
And the problem with that is when you go home, when you're always worried about things going wrong, you are succeeding in business because of that.
But it doesn't make you a pleasant person to be around in life.
Well, this is interesting.
So.
I'm curious how your hypervigilance manifests itself, how you would describe it.
Because Dr. Drew pointed out to me that I have hypervigilance.
I also have obsessive compulsive disorder, which means worrying so much about doing things correctly that ultimately you screw it up.
So you're just running it and running it and running it, but you're not actually doing anything.