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James L. Brooks

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

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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."

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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"

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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes."

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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

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James L. Brooks
"I took some time out for life."

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James L. Brooks
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."

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James L. Brooks
"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."

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James L. Brooks
"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."

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James L. Brooks
"I'm big on research."

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James L. Brooks
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."

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

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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."

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

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James L. Brooks
"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."

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