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.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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