Mel Brooks

Has frequently cast himself, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Rudy De Luca, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Dom DeLuise, Ron Carey, Marty Feldman and Kenneth Mars.
Almost always uses music by John Morris
Frequently uses the line: "We have much to do and less time to do it in."
His films usually contain many Jewish references and jokes
Always features one scene in his movies in which the main character is seated and staring blankly, wondering what went wrong, while friends console him.

Called his late wife, Anne Bancroft, his Obi-Wan Kenobi as she had encouraged him to turn his movie Frühling für Hitler (1967) into a Broadway musical.
Best friends with Carl Reiner. Both of them widowers, they hang out and watch movies together every night.
Brooks has stated that he includes so many jokes about Hitler and the Nazis in his movies because he wants to make them both seem so ridiculous that their beliefs never became popular again. However, he added that he absolutely refuses to include any jokes about the Holocaust or other atrocities.
Brooks introduced himself to Anne Bancroft in 1961 while she was making her first appearance on Die Perry-Como-Show (1948) (she would later return to appear on that show on various occasions over several years). Brooks bribed a woman who worked on the show to tell him at which restaurant Bancroft was going to dine so he could "accidentally" bump into her again and strike up a conversation. It worked. The two fell in love and eventually married at New York City's municipal Marriage Bureau in Lower Manhattan, where a passerby served as witness.
Served as a corporal with the United States Army 1104th Engineer Combat Group in Europe as a Combat Engineer during World War II, where one of his duties was defusing land mines before the infantry moved in. He served in the Battle of the Bulge.

Why should I indulge myself and do a David Lean-ish kind of film? I could do my little Jewish Begegnung (1945) and disguise it - shorten the noses. But it wouldn't be as much fun as delivering my dish of insanity.
I cut my finger. That's tragedy. A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That's comedy.
My movies rise below vulgarity.
Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.