Mel Brooks Receives BFI Fellowship (Interview)

The great comedian-director reveals how he once quit Blazing Saddles (1974), and what he plans to do with the BFI’s highest honour.

Mel Brooks, the great comedian-director behind The Producers (1968) and Young Frankenstein (1974), talks to Alan Yentob about casting his classic comedy western Blazing Saddles (1974) and his thoughts on receiving a Fellowship, the BFI’s highest honour.