“I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.” — James L. Brooks Quote

“I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.”

“I saw 'Annie Hall' with a group of people working in comedy and television. We were all stunned. Stunned. It was like watching a spaceship land. That something that funny could also be that beautiful.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.”

“That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.”

“I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.”

“A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.”

“We cannot stand idly by as the CCP undermines human rights, freedom and decency its pursuit of world dominance.”

“Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.”

“It's really frustrating when you write a show and it's really funny and someone and from Standards and Decency says, 'You can't put that in because it has a naughty word.'”

“Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.”