We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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’.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I wish I was better looking.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Well, 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’.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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