Good is a bit of an understatement when it comes to Brooks' films over the past four decades.
“Movies are one of the great team sports,” he says.
“My particular joy should I use that word?
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my particular whatever about directing is working with actors.
I always thought the one thing I can do is make the actors better.”
“There’s bliss of ignorance.”
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“It just wouldn’t have been good were we not to have everyone we did.
you might do everything the same [but] have different actors anywhere, and the result is different.
In this case, it was all them.”
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Jack of All Trades
Terms of Endearmentwas the first film on which Brooks and Nicholson collaborated.
“He was great to me,” Brooks remembers.
My identity to myself is as a writer, and there it was.
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It was dreamlike."
Casting, per usual, was key.
“I waited six months for Bill Hurt because I thought he was indispensable you might’t act charisma.”
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“Holly Hunter came in, and that wasit.
Run, Joan, Run!
I said, ‘Oh, thank God, they still run!'”
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Brooks says, laughing.
“So that’s where that scene comes from.”
“We needed our friendship,” Brooks says.
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It was very frustrating for [Nicholson].
