When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
From James L. Brooks
I'm big on research.
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.
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
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