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 worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
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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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If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.
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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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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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I'm big on research.
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I'm a journalism junkie.
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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 always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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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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Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
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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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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 have a lot of nightmares.
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I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.
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In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
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A lot of things just aren't true any more.
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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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Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.