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.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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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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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Rhetoric 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.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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