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 BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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He who hesitates is poor.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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