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14 quotes by Marshall Brickman

Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1939) is an American screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in The New Yorker.
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After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the... →

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I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.

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As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the... →

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You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if... →

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O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do... →

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I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has... →

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Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical... →

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Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

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I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.

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If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

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New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

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Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

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I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we... →

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