James L. Brooks Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by James L. Brooks:
If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.
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When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
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I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
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I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.
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I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
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I took some time out for life.
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I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
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I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'
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I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.
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Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
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I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.
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I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.
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I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
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A lot of things just aren't true any more.
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Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week.
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You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
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I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
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Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
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I have a lot of nightmares.
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I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
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Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
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I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.
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That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.
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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
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I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.
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What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
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I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
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I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
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Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
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I'm big on research.
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