James L. Brooks
👤 Speaker
774
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
If he lands, he knocks you out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
He was a middleweight.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
How was he even in contention to act in this thing if he hadn't act and he was boxing?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I really believe we were looking for a boxer because everybody had a dream in the cab company and his was.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
There was a wall up.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
They were contemptuous of us from TV.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
It's so crazy how radically that has changed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I mean, you can't make an inch without somebody offering you a movie.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
It's almost impossible for you to conceive.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Absolute wall.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Get out of here if you're from television.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And I think Ron Howard was the first one over the fence.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And then I got there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I didn't direct that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
You just wrote it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
No.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
When I read the book, it was the second time in my life that I cried.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And I got to the ending.