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 BROOKSI’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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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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