Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSOh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
MEL BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSI loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric 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.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSWell, 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 BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKS