The Apartment is wildly influential as a romantic comedy; it gets cited by pretty much every contemporary comedy filmmaker as a crucial text in the genre. (decider.com)
The film might have been overlooked on release, but I'd wager that a decade from now, it's going to feel like the arrival of a new wave of comedy filmmakers in the same way that, say, «Freaks & Geeks» did fifteen years ago. (indiewire.com)
Last year, I wrote about MacFarlane as a future A-list comedy filmmaker on the eve of his sophomore feature A Million Ways to Die in -LSB-...] (hollywoodnews.com)