James L. Brooks Quotes
In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.
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To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
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My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.
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You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons. I’d been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I’ve learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.
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In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
