Gene Wilder

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits?

Dressed up like a million dollar trooper.

Trying mighty hard to look like Gary Cooper.

Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks or Romborellas in their midst.

Gene Wilder, you came up with the premise for Young Frankenstein.

You officially share credits with... Milbrook shares credit with you for the screenplay and the screen story.

What gave you the idea of writing Young Frankenstein?

Did you love the Frankenstein movie?

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, actually, because there were four of them in particular that influenced me.

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, that I was a young doctor or dental hygienist and found out that my great-grandfather, Beaufort von Frankenstein, left me the whole estate.

That was all I had in mind at the time.

And then my agent at the time, Mike Medavoy, before he became a movie mogul, called me up and said, how about a movie with you and Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman?

And I said, well, what makes you think of that?

He said, because I now handle you and Peter and Marty.

And I said, well, as it happens, I do have something.

Well, send it to me right now.