A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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