If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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