Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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