Albert Brooks on Being Neurotic, Tweeting, and This Is 40 – Sometimes undersold, always ahead of his time, Albert Brooks has made a festival’s worth of classics—Modern Romance, Lost in America, Defending Your Life, etc. The Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director gets into it with Judd Apatow, who directed Brooks in this month’s This Is 40, on topics great and small: his neuroses, his marriage, his Twitter feed, John Lennon, death, and integrity.