I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
Gene WilderBut the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.
Gene WilderSo my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene WilderAnd Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years, and he didn't make a penny from it. And then he did "The Twelve Chairs" - $50,000 for two more years and didn't make a penny from it. That's four years of work. And then they offered him quite a bit of money to direct "Young Frankenstein," and he took it.
Gene Wilder