I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSWell, 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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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 God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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