Biography

He and his parents Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft both won Emmys.

Was named after his paternal grandfather, Maximillian Kaminsky.

Graduated from American University's film school in 1994, after having also attended Pitzer College as a history major and spending a semester at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Worked as a production assistant on Michael Palin's African rail pilgrimage at the BBC.

His middle name, Michael, is from his maternal grandfather, Michael Italiano.

[re father Mel Brooks] I've no desire to become the next king of Jewish immigrant comics, but I am so proud of my old man.

My rule is that whatever I write has to start with its first fan, which is me, I have to love it, because if I don't love it then it's not worth doing.

If you were a vampire you're at the top of the food chain, and you've been spoiled. You're essentially the aristocracy. You have all these gifts: speed, strength, immortality and anonymity.

I'm a really crappy liar. That's one of the reasons my wife married me because she knows I can never have an affair.

You want to talk about ruining a movie? Because the scene where the military commander in 28 Days Later (2002) says, 'I'm waiting to see how long it takes for the infected to starve to death.' I thought, 'Well, if they eat... then they drink right? They need water?' Well, after four days the human body starts to shut down, so in a purely realistic movie, the dude would wake up out of the hospital and London would just be littered with dehydrated corpses and the movie would be called Four Days Later.