No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSMad About You’ was very fun.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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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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