I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
-
-
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.
MEL BROOKS -
I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKS -
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKS -
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS -
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKS -
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKS -
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKS -
As 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 BROOKS -
I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKS -
You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKS