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In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
James L. Brooks -
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
James L. Brooks
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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.
James L. Brooks -
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.
James L. Brooks -
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.
James L. Brooks -
I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
James L. Brooks -
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
James L. Brooks -
With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.
James L. Brooks
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I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'
James L. Brooks -
I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
James L. Brooks