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’.
MEL BROOKSLook, 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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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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