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When you produce and direct yo...

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

James Brooks 39 quotes

Kids in general make things fr...

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

James Brooks 39 quotes

Great things that can happen w...

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

James Brooks 39 quotes

A lot of things just aren't tr...

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

James Brooks 39 quotes

I love romantic comedy, but I ...

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

James Brooks 39 quotes

Media reporting denied privacy...

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

James Brooks 39 quotes

I think you have a pact with a...

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

James Brooks 39 quotes

Things get very distorted when...

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

James Brooks 39 quotes

It never stops, accepting that...

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult.
I took some time out for life.

James Brooks 39 quotes

You become so obsessed, and th...

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

James Brooks 39 quotes

There was a great director who...

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.

James Brooks 39 quotes

I've done it with Broadcast Ne...

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

James Brooks 39 quotes

You have more and more people ...

You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

James Brooks 39 quotes

Dagwood Bumstead was a great u...

Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

James Brooks 39 quotes

I spent two years telling stud...

I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.

James Brooks 39 quotes

Screenwriting is no more compl...

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

James Brooks 39 quotes

The thing that usually gets me...

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

James Brooks 39 quotes

I have a lot of nightmares....

I have a lot of nightmares.

James Brooks 39 quotes

I value comedy. I value somebo...

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

James Brooks 39 quotes

What does it mean for an actor...

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.

James Brooks 39 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....