I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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