If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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 have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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