"There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said, "I'm sorry, Jim. When you're directing, you don't need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do." And, you know, and I WOULD be there behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn't even aware of."

--

Source : "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

James L. Brooks

#Sorry Quotes #Trying Quotes #Directors Quotes

“I learned more from Black Star and Black Thought Than I ever did from any class of any sort.”
“My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy”
“I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.”
“We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.”
“In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.”
“If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.”
“In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.”
“As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.”

Source : Speech on Joining Democratic Party, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2009.

You may also like:

Albert Brooks
Actor
Dan Castellaneta
Actor
Hank Azaria
Film actor
Harry Shearer
Actor
Jack Nicholson
Actor
Julie Kavner
Film actress
Matt Groening
Cartoonist
Sam Simon
Producer
Yeardley Smith
Actress