Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSDom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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