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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.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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