Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I wish I was better looking.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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