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.
MEL BROOKSAll 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.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric 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.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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.
MEL BROOKSYou’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
MEL BROOKSWe rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKS