Marshall Brickman Quotations

There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.

Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

If it wasn't for the music, they've said they would have ended up in the trunk of somebody's car or doing time. Bob, who was from New Rochelle, was a little more middle-class.

I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

We had to be diplomatic and discreet, for the protection of the authors.

As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.

I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.

It's not really a dark piece. There are plenty of laughs. I would call it a show with a lot of emotions.

It's like that dinner date that you make for six months in advance. You think it will never happen. And then it's here.

O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.

If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.

I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if you cram too much into your head, you don't get any ideas in the shower.