The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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