James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I went to the high school.
I hung with the teacher.
Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back.
go back a lot so that what I thought would be a week of my life became months of my life.
And I'm glad it stuck.
Authenticity.
You've unconsciously dug deeper by showing up again and again and again.
It starts to be, oh, that's interesting to you.
Take it in.
You get it just by going back.
It's great.
You enjoy it.
You step out of your life, you know.
But you did 112 episodes of that show, I think.
And it won an Emmy for Best New Show.
And because of this Gene Reynolds, it was the real deal.
He wanted to get it right.
He put the whip on us to get it right.
So it was just a break getting mentored by somebody like that.
Before this, the great comedy on the air, the thing where you say, oh, there can be that kind of quality was the Dick Van Dyke Show.