If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSI’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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The 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.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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