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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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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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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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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
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If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.
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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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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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When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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