Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

When I was a little kid at home, I thought the whole world was Jewish. For years I thought Roosevelt was Jewish. I loved him. I thought of him as my father. I'm always stunned when I find out that people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.