Mel Brooks Quotes
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Who's the dummy writing this show?!
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Sheriff Bart: Excuse me while I whip this out.
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President Skroob: What the hell, it works on Star Trek!
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Stormtrooper Mel : Don't be stupid, be a smarty Come and join the Nazi Party!
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.