Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
- Mel Brooks Quote

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
- Mel Brooks Quote

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks Quote

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
- Mel Brooks Quote

He who hesitates is poor.
- Mel Brooks Quote

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks Quote

I only direct in self-defense.
- Mel Brooks Quote

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
- Mel Brooks Quote

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
- Mel Brooks Quote

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
- Mel Brooks Quote

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
- Mel Brooks Quote

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
- Mel Brooks Quote

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
- Mel Brooks Quote

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Quote

We rest our case on the production numbers.
- Mel Brooks Quote

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
- Mel Brooks Quote