Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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