About Mel Brooks: Melvin James "Mel" Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, comedian, actor, producer, composer, and songwriter.
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
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.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
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.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
