NEW YORK – Judd Apatow likes to keep stuff. He even goes as far as to say he's a hoarder. But unlike a regular hoarder, he insists all the things he keeps are awesome — and neatly collected.

“I save everything, but I don’t have it in a mound in the middle of the house,” the writer-director says. “I’m the Felix Unger of hoarding. Everything is taken care of very well.”

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It's packed with behind-the-scenes snapshots from sets, script fragments, notes from network bosses, essays, movie posters and miniprofiles of his fellow comedians. There's his l

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