We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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’.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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