Tragedy Is When I Cut

I Was Adored [as A Kid]. I Was Always In The Air, Hurled Up And Kissed And Thrown In The Air Again. Until I Was Six, My Feet Didn't Touch The Ground. "look At Those Eyes! That Nose! Those Lips! That Tooth! Get That Child Away From Me, Quick! I'll Eat Him!" Giving That Up Was Very Difficult Later On In Life.

Directing Is A Terrible, Anxious Process. It's All Collaboration, And If You Have A Dream, It's Diluted Very Quickly By The Slightest Ineptness In Any Of Your Collaborators. They're Supposed To Help You, But Too Often They Help You Into Your Grave.

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.

You Want Me To Admit I'm A Four-foot, Six-inch Freckle-faced Person Of Jewish Extraction? I Admit It. All But The Extraction. But Being Short Never Bothered Me For Three Seconds. The Rest Of The Time I Wanted To Commit Suicide.

I Was In The Army, And To Me It Was Like A Newsreel.