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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

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

I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.

James L. Brooks

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

James L. Brooks

I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.

James L. Brooks

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

Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week.

James L. Brooks

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

That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.

James L. Brooks

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

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

James L. Brooks

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

James L. Brooks

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

James L. Brooks

I'm big on research.

James L. Brooks

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

James L. Brooks

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

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

James L. Brooks

I took some time out for life.

James L. Brooks

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.

James L. Brooks

I have a lot of nightmares.

James L. Brooks

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

James L. Brooks

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.

James L. Brooks

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.

James L. Brooks

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

James L. Brooks

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

James L. Brooks