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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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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 a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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