I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to death of the Frankenstein films ... and in all these years later, I wanted it to come out with a happy ending, and I think it was my fear of the Frankenstein movies when I was 8 and 9 and 10 years old that made me want to write that story [Young Frankenstein].

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

I 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.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!