The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
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
My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't.… — 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
You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and… — 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
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
What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that… — 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
