James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was that championship season.
People looked in the rearview mirror and said, that was the time of my life.
We knew it was the time of our life then.
We didn't wait for a rearview mirror.
We relished it, man.
Yeah.
And then there was a magazine article.
in New York Magazine about a small taxi company in New York.
And the article pointed out that they all had Johnny Tomorrow dreams.
They wanted to be this, they wanted to be an actor.
And there was something, you know, Eugene O'Neill about it.
Yeah.
We went to the research thing.
So I'm in a cab company and I'm
there for a day where I was just there for 14 hours.
They knew I was there for research.
And the guy who ran it, the manager who was in the cage dispatching the Danny DeVito, the real guy, a cab driver was slipping him money to get a clean cab, a cab in good condition.
The whole character came from that.
Sure.
He's like sleazy on the grift.