There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric 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.
MEL BROOKSMad About You’ was very fun.
MEL BROOKSAnybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSA brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
MEL BROOKSI loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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 BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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