When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSYou’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.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSThe 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 BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSAll short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
MEL BROOKSI loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSI’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
MEL BROOKSWe rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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