I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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