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.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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Oh, 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.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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