Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

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Today's episode features the DGA Special Projects Committee's recent event, the craft of the director, Judd Apatow.

The event was the sixth in this series of conversations with master filmmakers that feature an in-depth discussion about the directing process, from pre-production through post.

In addition to his recently released feature, The King of Staten Island, Mr. Apatow's

directorial credits include the feature films The 40-year-old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This Is 40,

and Train Rec, episodes of the series, Love, Crashing, Undeclared, Freaks and Theeks, and The Larry Sanders Show, and the documentary The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling.

Please enjoy Mr. Apatow's conversation with fellow director Jeremy Kagan in front of a virtual audience.

Highlights from their discussion include Mr. Apatow's philosophy on directing comedy,

the difficulty of cutting scenes from his movies,

and how he is able to bring his features in on budget.

So I want to welcome Judd Apatow to this craft of series.

Judd, thanks for being here.

Happy to be here.

I'm trying to decide as a director

if this light from the window

is making it look better

or worse, am I blowing out,

or do I want to close the window a little bit?

You are in like the Starship Enterprise.

See, you are in a different space.

And I can't decide.

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