Mel Brooks Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

  Mel Brooks

  Philosophy, Writing, Ideas

  " Mel Brooks on the Secret to Fart Sounds, Why Comedy’s Gotten Lazy and His New PBS Doc ‘Mel Brooks: Make a Noise’" by Matt Singer, www.indiewire.com. May 16, 2013.

• I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look like it was processed through his thinking. It feels very natural. You don't question whether Tolstoy's right or wrong. His philosophy is housed in interrelating characters, so it's not up for grabs.

  Mel Brooks

  Philosophy, Ocean, Writing

• The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.

  Mel Brooks

  Philosophy, Names, Want Something

  "Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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