Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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