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.
MEL BROOKSWell, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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