It's always been a love letter to Broadway, and now its time has come, |
Leslie has the ability to do two things: he can be menacing and scary and he can be incredibly stupid and funny, and he blends them both beautifully. He is a consummate actor-comedian. |
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. |
Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively. |
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell. |
On directing movies: anybody can direct. There are only 11 good write |
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. |
That's Tom Meehan. You wouldn't dream he'd come up with those home runs. You'd think: 'Tom Meehan. Gentile, structure, taste. But you wouldn't think he'd come up with the jokes. But he's got it. He got it all. |
There's no lightning. There's blood, sweat and tears. There's a good idea and there's 18 months of due diligence, hard work, day and night. |
These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet. |
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. |
We rest our case on the production numbers. |
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. |
When we did 'Young Frankenstein,' we knew we could get the college crowd. They loved the Mary Shelley novel. If you didn't get the references, you couldn't enjoy my movies. |
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. |