But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.
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 WilderI never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
Gene WilderZero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.
Gene Wilder