But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
-
-
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 BROOKS -
A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKS -
I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKS -
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKS -
I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKS -
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKS -
If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKS -
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKS -
No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKS -
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKS -
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKS -
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 BROOKS -
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’.
MEL BROOKS -
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKS -
I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
MEL BROOKS -
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKS -
I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
MEL BROOKS -
We rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
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.
MEL BROOKS -
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKS -
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKS -
We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKS -
I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKS