"Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help."

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Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

Mel Brooks

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“All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, thereâ€™s always a key out there that opens it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jonathan Kellerman from Mar 27, 2013
“I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.”
“The best way to improve perspective taking is to see users up close.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.”

Source : "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.
“When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.”

Source : "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.
“But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.”
“They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.”
“Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”

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