We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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