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 BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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 presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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