James L. Brooks Quotes

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.

When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.

Once I get an opponent, I'm locked into him.

For me, I rarely go and see 3D movies because I feel like, when you're wearing glasses, you're aware that you're in the theatre. And the whole thing for me with the movie experience is to be lost in the movie.

It's really fun to watch yourself disappear in the movie every day.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

I need to create a whole cinematic experience. I think that's what it takes to get the audience to the theater and justify seeing [a movie] on a big screen. You have to give them a cinematic experience.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters. No matter what. I just became obsessed with movies, and wound up getting drawn to the pulsating grain of film and the flickering of the light.

I feel every film has its own charm and gets made for a purpose.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not finished.

I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?

I can't put my mind to anything else. I'm not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it's all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it's football the whole time. I think I'm obsessed!

In 'Biwi No 1,' I made you laugh. In 'Sirf Tum,' I made you cry. In 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai,' I am going to make you dream.

For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.

I basically like the unpredictability factor. When I watch a film, if it becomes predictable, I lose interest in it.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.