[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
A lot of things just aren't true any more. - James L. Brooks
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
- James L. Brooks
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so. - James L. Brooks
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
I took some time out for life. - James L. Brooks
I took some time out for life.
Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be. - James L. Brooks
Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.
[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. - James L. Brooks
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipote… - James L. Brooks
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipote…
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
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.
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
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.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. - James L. Brooks
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
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