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.
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.
- James L. Brooks
A lot of things just aren't true any more. - James L. Brooks
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
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.
I took some time out for life. - James L. Brooks
I took some time out for life.
[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. - James L. Brooks
[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
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.
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.
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…
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