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James L. Brooks
American
Producer
About the author
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.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
#Actor
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,
American
Producer
#World
#Sense
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
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,
American
Producer
#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,
American
Producer
#Kids
#Appreciation
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,
American
Producer
#Open
#News
I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
#Comedy
#Value
#Funny
I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
#Time
#Life
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,
American
Producer
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
#Love
#Idea
#Comedy
#Romantic
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
I have a lot of nightmares.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
#Idea
#Decency
#Marketing
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
I'm big on research.
James L. Brooks,
American
Producer
#Research