American - Producer | May 9, 1940 -
I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
James L. Brooks
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In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
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I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
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We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.
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The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
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In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
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Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.
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With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.
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It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.'
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My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.
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