James L. Brooks's Quotes
Born: 1940-05-09
Profession: Producer
Nation: American
Biography of James L. Brooks
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
Tags: TrueI have a lot of nightmares.
Tags: NightmaresI love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
Tags: Another, Love, RomanticI 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.
Tags: Picture, Real, TryKids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
Tags: Great, Kids, MakingMedia reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
Tags: Living, Picture, WorkYou become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
Tags: Bad, Become, SenseI'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.
Tags: Done, Happens, PointWhat 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.
Tags: Happen, Mean, Put