I Don't Believe In This Business Of

Comedy Is Serious - Deadly Serious. Never, Never Try To Be Funny! The Actors Must Be Serious. Only The Situation Must Be Absurd. Funny Is In The Writing, Not In The Performing. If The Situation Isn't Absurd, No Amount Of Joke Will Help.

My Mother Is Very Short - Four-eleven. She Could Walk Under Tables And Never Hit Her Head.

Making A Movie Is Like Making An Ocean Voyage, And The Script Is Your Ship.

One Day, God Said 'let There Be Prey.' And He Created Pigeons, Rabbits, Lambs And Gene Wilder.

The Thing Is To Be Brave And Move The Audience With You, Instead Of Cater To The Lowest Common Denominator, You Know, Slipping On A Banana Peel And Falling On Your Ass. You Got To Move The Audience A Little Further Ahead In Terms Of Their Appreciation Of What Is Comedy. It's Complicated.