James L. Brooks Quotes

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James L. Brooks

Profession : Producer

Birth : May 9, 1940

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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My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.

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I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.

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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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Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

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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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If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.

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I'm big on research.

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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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Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

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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.

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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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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

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I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

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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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I have a lot of nightmares.

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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.

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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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A lot of things just aren't true any more.

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