Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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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