If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
From Mel Brooks
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.
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
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'.
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
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