James L. Brooks Quotes
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The remarkable thing about 9/11 was that journalism pretty much put down its badges. People didn't worry about reacting as human beings. People who weren't reporters reported. David Letterman was sort of a brilliant reporter for a second - but it was a way nobody had ever covered a story. They just presented what was inside themselves.
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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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When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.
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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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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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If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.
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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 always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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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 always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
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I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
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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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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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In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
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A television job that's working is the best job in the world.
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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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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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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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'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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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 lot of nightmares.