"Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so."

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Source : "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

James L. Brooks

“It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.”

Source : "Angus and Julia Stone Synch Up". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 31, 2014.
“A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.”

Source : Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.40, University of Regina Press
“The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.”
“I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.”
“When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.”
“The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith...”
“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”

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