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.
MEL BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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