James L. Brooks Quotations

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.

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

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

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

That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.

I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.

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.

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

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

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.