No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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’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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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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.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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