You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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