Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

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.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

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

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain or we need whatever it was.