James L. Brooks Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

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

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

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

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

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

When you produce and direct your own film you have the somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

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

I have a lot of nightmares.

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.