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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.
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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
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Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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He who hesitates is poor.
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