Quotes
Authors
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
#Philosophy Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
“When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.”
“No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.”
“Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.”
“Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.”
“Be the leader you wish you had.”
Source : Twitter post from Jul 29, 2013
“Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.”
“The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.”
“It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.”
