A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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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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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All 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.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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