I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSThese 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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