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.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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