If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into.

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

James L. Brooks Quotes