James L. Brooks

That's great.

It's not about that.

It's when the work is good, you feel good.

And then things happen.

But I think the cart and horse is very clear to me.

I've never heard a breed pronounced better than you just did.

I haven't fallen in love with an ex-girlfriend's Brussels.

Yeah.

How did Trudeau come to be a character?

Somebody had written a script that was not a comedy, but it had the characters, a lot of the story.

And then I started working on it.

And I feel that it was two people who were partners in screenwriting, but they worked

a year apart and separately, the way it worked.

And it never could have happened without him.

And then it was right to change form into a comedy.

So the dog was in his.

And then you got to cast a dog and it's going to be an important part.

Figuring out how to piss on cue, which we ended up, the prop guy took care of that.

The way it has to be is that you don't treat the dog as an afterthought, the dog and his trainer, that you give them what you give to every actor.

That was very important to give them the time, to give them the stage, to give them the respect.