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" I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. "
Mel Brooks
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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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" 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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" Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. "
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" If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. "
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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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" We rest our case on the production numbers. "
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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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" As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me. "
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" Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. "
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" Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. "
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" 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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People
" But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. "
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" Immortality is a by-product of good work. "
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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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" I only direct in self-defense. "
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" I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. "
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" 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. "
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Say
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" A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. "
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Lot
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" Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. "
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" My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. "
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" If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. "
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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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