I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSA brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSWe rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS