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.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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