I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSI’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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I wish I was better looking.
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