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.
MEL BROOKSI loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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 you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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