Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooksis an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, composer, songwriter and veteran. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit, The 2000 Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series, Get Smart,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 June 1926
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.
We mock the things we are to be.
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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.
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.