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 BROOKSLife literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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