There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.