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

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.

I'm big on research.

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

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.

I took some time out for life.

I have a lot of nightmares.

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.