Quotes by Marshall Brickman - Page 1

If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Maker
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Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Easily
Suspect
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Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Screenwriter
Wanting
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New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Los Angeles
City Rest New
Angeles
Los
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When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Miracle
Pessimistic
Saving Up
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I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Jogging
Life Time Believe
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O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Helplessness
Believe Me Father
Activists
Believe Father Me
Repugnant
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There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Advertising
Los Angeles
Pool
Angeles
Drawn
Los
References
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I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Good Luck
Luck
Good World Believe
Something Good
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After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Coffee
College
Complexion
Intellect
Nightclubs
Occupation
Pursue
Real
Real Work
Folk
Houses
Joined
Sang
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As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Cinematic
Dialogue
Carried
Freight
Inherently
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I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Health Care
Health Care People
More People
Requests
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Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Application
Chinese
Physics
Bachelor
Degree
Entered
Gravitational
Practical
Pulled
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You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if you cram too much into your head, you don't get any ideas in the shower.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Subconscious
Time Thinking Your
Cram
Shower
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There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.
Marshall Brickman / Screenwriter
Directors
Moving
Rooms
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