James L. Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.'
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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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Nothing is a matter of course when you get to do your own thing. It's always a gift that can stop giving and probably will.
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I'm big on research.
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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 value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
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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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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'm a journalism junkie.
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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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You know you're in love when you're more yourself than you ever imagined possible.
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I saw 'Annie Hall' with a group of people working in comedy and television. We were all stunned. Stunned. It was like watching a spaceship land. That something that funny could also be that beautiful.
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A television job that's working is the best job in the world.
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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 have a lot of nightmares.
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A lot of things just aren't true any more.
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Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
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'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It's wild.
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In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
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If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.
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I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.