Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSI know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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