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.
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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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You’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.
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