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

    "James L. Brooks for “Spanglish”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. December 14, 2004.
  • You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

  • It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

  • [Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

    "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 20007.
  • A lot of things just aren't true any more.

  • Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

    Way   Scripts  
    "James L. Brooks on Trying to Get Michelle Obama for ‘Simpsons,’ and ‘Edge of Seventeen’" by Brent Lang, variety.com. September 12, 2016.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Moving   Character   News  
  • I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.

    Hate   Cancer   Years  
  • I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

    Comedy   Values  
    "Adam Sandler Gets Serious". movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.
  • I took some time out for life.

  • There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said, "I'm sorry, Jim. When you're directing, you don't need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do." And, you know, and I WOULD be there behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn't even aware of.

    "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.
  • Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

    Appreciation   Kids   Air  
  • 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.

    Media   Privacy   Denied  
  • The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

  • I have a lot of nightmares.

  • 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.

    Mean   Doe   Actors  
    "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.
  • Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

    "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.
  • I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

  • Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

    Dog   Hero   Hard Times  
  • 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.

    Real   Thinking   Trying  
    "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.
  • I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

    "James L. Brooks on Trying to Get Michelle Obama for ‘Simpsons,’ and ‘Edge of Seventeen’" by Brent Lang, variety.com. September 12, 2016.
  • I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

    Sexy   Ideas   Marketing  
    "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.
  • When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

    Feelings   Film   Produce  
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