“I'm a journalism junkie.” — James L. Brooks Quote

“I'm a journalism junkie.”

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

“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.”

“I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.”

“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.”

“I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'”

“I was more interested in journalism and fact-finding than other things, so I didn't plan to work 30 years as a lawyer.”

“I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.”

“I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.”

“I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.”

“I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.”

“Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren't tolerated in journalism schools. When their mistakes are corrected at all, it's with little seeming regret.”