The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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