Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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