James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
And that hit me one day.
Yeah, did it fill you with satisfaction?
It was emotional because I was not in a great environment and I was not a happy kid.
Well, it was my mom and my sister was eight years older than I.
Oh, okay.
So she was saddled with me quite a bit.
It's ever the regret of my life that my mom couldn't see some good things happen to me.
No, no, no, no.
Yeah.
My sister had become divorced, so she moved home.
I had a job as an usher in New York that I commuted to after high school.
And between the three of us, life became a little easier economically.
Okay.
With the both of them contributing?
She worked six days a week, two nights a week.
She sold children's clothes.
Maybe the opposite.
But my father was more than a salesman.
He was a T.O.