Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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