22 Quotes by Marshall Brickman

It's not really a dark piece. There are plenty of laughs. I would call it a show with a lot of emotions.

It's like that dinner date that you make for six months in advance. You think it will never happen. And then it's here.

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.

If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

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.

I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

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.

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.