I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with? — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, if somebody said they were thirty-five, I'd say "Oooh, they're going to die soon". But as… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with? — Mel Brooks Copy Share
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head. — Mel Brooks Copy Share
The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're… — Mel Brooks Copy Share
![“I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look like it was processed through his thinking. It feels very natural. You don't question whether Tolstoy's right or wrong. His philosophy is housed in interrelating…” quote by Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a15/mel-brooks-2308_character_i-started-with-leo-tolstoy-and-i-was-ove_378838.png)
![“There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think people should bargain. They shouldn't just buy the set, it's a little expensive [anyway]. But they should say - I'll give them dialogue, I'm a good writer.” quote by Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cc5/mel-brooks-2308_bargains_there-s-a-lot-of-things-that-i-ve-done-t_2382478.jpg)
