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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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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'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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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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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me it's a sign of security.
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Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
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I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
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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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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
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When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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