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
It's always been a love letter to Broadway, and now its time has come,
When we did 'Young Frankenstein,' we knew we could get the college crowd. They loved the Mary Shelley novel. If you didn't get the references, you couldn't enjoy my movies.
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
We rest our case on the production numbers.
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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.
I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.