I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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