James L. Brooks Quotes
"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
(Related: Sense, World)
"Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene."
- James L. Brooks
"Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so."
- James L. Brooks
"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."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Work, Living, Media, Privacy)
"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Appreciation, Kids)
"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: News, Open)
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Funny, Comedy, Value)
"I took some time out for life."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Life, Time)
"I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real."
- James L. Brooks
"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Love, Idea, Comedy, Romantic)
"A lot of things just aren't true any more."
- James L. Brooks
"I have a lot of nightmares."
- James L. Brooks
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Idea, Decency, Marketing)
"Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie."
- James L. Brooks
"I'm big on research."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Research)