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.
MEL BROOKSLife literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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