22 Quotes by Marshall Brickman

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.

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.

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

If it wasn't for the music, they've said they would have ended up in the trunk of somebody's car or doing time. Bob, who was from New Rochelle, was a little more middle-class.

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.

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

We had to be diplomatic and discreet, for the protection of the authors.

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.

I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.