Was the studio a little wary of this kind of language being used repeatedly in a big, mainstream comedy?Oh, we never told the studio what we were doing. [Vice President in Charge of Production at Warner Brothers] John Calley knew, and that was it. This was Warners, where there were many echelons of
Who came up with the title Blazing Saddles?That one was all me I can't take sole credit for a lot of stuff on the movie, but that one's mine. Originally it was called "Tex X," but John Calley said, "No, sounds too much like a blaxploitation film." Then it was "Black Bart," which obviously had a do