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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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"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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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."

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"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."

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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."

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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."

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"In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

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"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."

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"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

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

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"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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"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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"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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