I've always been a. . . believer in good regulation.
Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. [. . . ] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.
I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart. . . badoom, badoom, badoom.
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media. . . it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start
Shame on you for staying the same.
When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.