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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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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 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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I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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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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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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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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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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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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