Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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