Quote by Albert Brooks
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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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasnt cool to say, at a young age, I want to be a comedian. – 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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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. – Albert Brooks

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The best movies have one sentence that theyre exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. – Helen Hunt

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You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin. – Tim Roth

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One of the reasons why people – particularly young people – love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice. – Steven Seagal

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I dont really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesnt really matter to me at all. – Joaquin Phoenix

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Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, Id do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled. – Steve Martin

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