"My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't. I didn't want the reviews to say, "Mel Brooks has made another movie," and you get the title somewhere in the second paragraph."

-- Mel Brooks

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“John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero.”
“And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally.”
“The thing about legs is you're born with them. Anybody can go out and buy boobs. But you're either blessed with attractive legs or you're not. That's what makes them so sexy.”
“I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.”
“Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.”
“I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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