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
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
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
I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The Twelve Chairs is about the same thing. It's all about money or love. We know we need money, we know we… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know,… — 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
No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know 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
