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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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