There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think people should bargain. They shouldn't just buy the set, it's a little expensive [anyway]. But they should say - I'll give them dialogue, I'm a good writer.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.