Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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