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" 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. "

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" 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

Time

Ideas

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

James L. Brooks

Scene

Tone

" It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.' "

" 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. "

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

James L. Brooks

Push

Hard

" 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 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. "

" If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing. "

" I'm big on research. "

James L. Brooks

Big

Research

" 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. "

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

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

James L. Brooks

Lot

Just

" I have a lot of nightmares. "

James L. Brooks

Nightmares

Lot

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

" Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is. "

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

" 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. "

" I took some time out for life. "

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