We rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKSWe rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKSOh, 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.
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 BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSEvery human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSLife literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKSWell, 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’.
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 BROOKS