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.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I wish I was better looking.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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