“The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chanc...” — James L. Brooks Quote

“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 came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.”

“I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have always been so interested in film as a medium.”

“I have been doing films since I was seven. I really love the medium itself.”

“I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.”

“Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.”

“I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.”

“Theatre is an actor's medium while a film is the director's.”