I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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