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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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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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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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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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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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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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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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