James L. Brooks Quotes
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We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.
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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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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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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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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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I'm big on research.
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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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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 value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
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When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.
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If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.
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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 fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
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You know you're in love when you're more yourself than you ever imagined possible.
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In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
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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 was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.
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I took some time out for life.
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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 have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.
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A lot of things just aren't true any more.
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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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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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A television job that's working is the best job in the world.