Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot. Marshall Brickman More Quotes by Marshall Brickman More Quotes From Marshall Brickman When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later. Marshall Brickman saving-up pessimistic miracle 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. Marshall Brickman coffee real college 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. Marshall Brickman directors rooms moving 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. Marshall Brickman parents me you father 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. Marshall Brickman me music poetry history If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman. Marshall Brickman maker were film 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. Marshall Brickman care health sometimes people 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. Marshall Brickman good me believe world New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America. Marshall Brickman rest city new country Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect. Marshall Brickman suspect easily me comedy 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. Marshall Brickman new advertising media world I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging. Marshall Brickman you time life believe I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes. Marshall Brickman whatever like jokes 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. Marshall Brickman director camera more dialogue You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if you cram too much into your head, you don't get any ideas in the shower. Marshall Brickman you time ideas thinking
