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 BROOKSDom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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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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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’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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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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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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