Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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