If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSWe rest our case on the production numbers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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