243 Quotes by Mel Brooks

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn’t! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

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.

Critics can’t even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren’t. I didn’t want the reviews to say, “Mel Brooks has made another movie,” and you get the title somewhere in the second paragraph.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I’m one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

When I was a little kid at home, I thought the whole world was Jewish. For years I thought Roosevelt was Jewish. I loved him. I thought of him as my father. I’m always stunned when I find out that people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren’t Jewish. How could I love them so much?

The only weapon I’ve got is comedy.

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.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can’t make you laugh can do that.