Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickmanis an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 August 1939
CountryUnited States of America
Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.
almost angeles drawn los references york
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.
moving rooms directors
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.
real coffee college
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.
saving-up miracle pessimistic
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
diplomatic protection
We had to be diplomatic and discreet, for the protection of the authors.
carried develop inherently projects
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.
call dark plenty
It's not really a dark piece. There are plenty of laughs. I would call it a show with a lot of emotions.
date dinner months six
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.
believe repugnant
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.