James L. Brooks
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774
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
When are you coming?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And then I went to see her and that was it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Wow.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
How did you get Nicholson?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Deborah Winger got me Nicholson.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
She did.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Yeah, because I couldn't get a script to him, you know?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Actor of his time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
The talent was so great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
But that kind of talent with all the charisma in the world, what are you kidding me?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And, you know, we did a picture, as good as it gets, where if he didn't do it, nobody could do it because he had permission from people to play this wretched core character as the star of a movie.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I wouldn't have made it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
It was the only one you could get away with it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
He's the only one that could have pulled that off.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And he's everything.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
You go legally insane when you direct, I think.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
You're in such a bubble.