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Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but Ive never worked on a movie, including my own, that didnt take advantage of a rehearsal process. – Albert Brooks

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Whats interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: Its either a utopia or its misery. The real truth is that theres going to be both things in any future, just like there is now. – Albert Brooks

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By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks

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My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called New Faces of 1937. My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties. – Albert Brooks

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