Quotes By Mel Brooks

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 legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

I only direct in self-defense.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.