We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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The 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.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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