I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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, 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’.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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