Mel Brooks Quotes on Writing

7 quotes

  1. It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!

  2. Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

  3. Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

  4. If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.

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  5. Who's the dummy writing this show?!?! (from The Electric Company)

  6. Funny depends on coincidental circumstances.

  7. You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

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