Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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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 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.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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