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I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#broadcast #characters #done #finish #finish line

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#get #movie #things #very #weirdly

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#body #consist #descriptive #does #face

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#ever #gift #i #knife #people

Humor is just another defense against the universe. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#against #another #defense #just #universe

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#fly #given #god #tickets #us

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#created #every #joy #laughter #man

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#never #rhetoric #soapbox #stand #trade

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#commonwealth #conceive #gods #members #men

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. ↗

— David R. Brower

#calculations #different #different kinds #each #half-life