Explore Quotes by James L. Brooks

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

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

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

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.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

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.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult._x000D__x000D_I took some time out for life.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I took some time out for life.

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