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.
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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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