A lot of people don’t realize that without a valley, there is no peak. Without information, there is no joke. You’ve got to set things up. - Mel Brooks

Carl: I want to talk about the impact of the Ten Commandments. Mel: There were more. But they weren’t important. Carl: Can you tell me one? Mel: Certainly, “thou shalt not squint.

Tomás de Torquemada: It's better to lose your skullcap than your skull.

I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another "Frankenstein." I said not another — we've had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law, we don't need another Frankenstein. His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, "That's funny."