We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

- Mel Brooks

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

- Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

- Mel Brooks

'Mad About You' was very fun.

- Mel Brooks

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

- Mel Brooks

I wish I was better looking.

- Mel Brooks

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

- Mel Brooks

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.

- Mel Brooks

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

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

- Mel Brooks

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'.

- Mel Brooks

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

- Mel Brooks

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

- Mel Brooks

I only direct in self-defense.

- Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

- Mel Brooks

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

- 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.

- Mel Brooks

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

- Mel Brooks

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

- Mel Brooks

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

- Mel Brooks