No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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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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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 lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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