I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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 you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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’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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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