James L. Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.”

“I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.”

“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.”

“I'm big on research.”

“Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!”

“When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.”

“I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.”

“I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'”

“I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.”

“I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.”