“If you write about a process you're about to go through, market resear...” — James L. Brooks Quote

“If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.”

“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 laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.”

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

“With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.”

“You know you're in love when you're more yourself than you ever imagined possible.”

“I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality.”

“I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.”

“Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.”

“When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.”

“To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.”

“The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.”