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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. "

Mel Brooks

Human

Living

Skin

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" A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote. "

" 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. "

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" Immortality is a by-product of good work. "

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

" 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. "

" I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. "

" You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it. "

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" If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. "

" A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. "

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Cinema

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" Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. "

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

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Film

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" I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. "

" All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security. "

" Humor is just another defense against the universe. "

" Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. "

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

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Rock

" If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. "

" A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. "

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

" I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. "

" As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. "

" 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. "

" Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. "