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" I only direct in self-defense. "
Mel Brooks
Self-Defense
Direct
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" Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'. "
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Anybody
" Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. "
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" It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't. "
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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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" Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. "
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Pretty
" 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. "
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Run
People
" Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. "
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Fear
Everything
" If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. "
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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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" Immortality is a by-product of good work. "
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" 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. "
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" Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them. "
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Support
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Case
Numbers
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