Albert Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.”

“If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.”

“In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.”

“It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.”

“Movies are an expensive business.”

“You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.”

“By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.”

“I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.”

“I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.”

“If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.”