Mel Brooks Comedy Quotations

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

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

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

I only direct in self-defense.

I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.

He who hesitates is poor.

The only weapon I've got is comedy

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

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.