I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
I only direct in self-defense.
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.
What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.
In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.
Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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.
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.
When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.
There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.
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.
The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.
