No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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