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
country los york
New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.
bachelor chinese college degree entered history left major music physics poetry practical pulled
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.
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.
If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.
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.
diplomatic protection
We had to be diplomatic and discreet, for the protection of the authors.
I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
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.
car ended music trunk
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.
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.
amount bad believe certain good happens means
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.
health less people requests
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.