I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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