I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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