Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKSOh, 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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