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].

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

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.

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

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