Richard Brooks movie quotes

“The privilege of failure has been taken away in America. All they want is success, success, success, one after the other.”
Richard Brooks

“Directing is only writing with a camera.”
Richard Brooks

“Any good writer, to write a woman, must be able to have some woman in him.”
Richard Brooks

“I'll tell you about those men. They were monsters and pirates and bastards right down to the bottom of their feet, but they loved movies. They loved making movies, they loved seeing movies and they protected the people who worked for them. Some of the jerks running the business now don't even have faces.”

Richard Brooks

“[Hollywood] is filled with people who make adventure pictures and who have never left this place... religious pictures and they haven't been in a church or synagogue for years... pictures about love and they have never been in love — ever.”
Richard Brooks

“I don't play the social game very well, but I'm trying to learn.”
Richard Brooks

“What is continued success? Mediocrity.”
Richard Brooks

“- Judah Earl: You can't stop me anymore, Ashe. You haven't got the power. There's nothing but pain for you now.
- Ashe Corven: Pain is my power.”
Richard Brooks - Judah Earl
Vincent Perez - Ashe Corven