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.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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I’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.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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