I only direct in self-defense.
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.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Well, 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’.
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The 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.
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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.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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