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.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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 loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Well, 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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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