If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as too far. If it works it's funny, if it doesn't work it's too far, it's stupid. Really… — 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
American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be… — 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
I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
