James L. Brooks Quotes

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

You don't often find a team where people are really friends with each other.

Most of the people I work with become family friends.

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.

One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.

It's nature that you're going to have relationships in your life, and sometimes it's with the people you work with.

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

You're going to be friends with people longer than you're going to be teammates in this game.

People always ask me if I'm best friends with everyone I work with in telly - but no, not everyone you work with is your friend.

But amongst the drivers I don't have friends at all. They are not my friends. It would never work to have a friendship, so I don't make any effort to make friends.

Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way.

The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

I make my relationships at work.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work.

I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.

I have an amazing crew, so it makes life so much easier. It's fun being around a bunch of my BFFs on the road.