Hvem er den sorte sherif i sheriffen skyder på det hele?
Cleavon Little
Weide, Robert (sommer 2012). "Stille på settet! Mel Brooks: The DGA Interview". DGA Quarterly. Los Angeles, Californien: Directors Guild of America, Inc: 30-37. OCLC 68905662.  Side 36: Q: Blazing Saddles gør også hyppigt brug af "N-ordet". Kunne du slippe af sted med det i dag? A: Aldrig. Hvis de lavede en genindspilning af Blazing Saddles i dag, ville de udelade N-ordet. Og så har man ingen film. Og jeg ville ikke have brugt det så meget, hvis jeg ikke havde Richard Pryor med mig på settet som en af mine forfattere. Og Cleavon Little [som sherif Bart] var fantastisk. Selv om det var tilladt, blev jeg ved med at spørge Cleavon: "Er det okay der? Er det for meget der? Er det for meget?", og han sagde: "Nej, nej, nej, nej, det er perfekt der."
Cleavon Little
Weide, Robert (Summer 2012). "Quiet on the Set! Mel Brooks: the DGA Interview". DGA Quarterly. Los Angeles, California: Directors Guild of America, Inc.: 30–37. OCLC 68905662.  Page 36: Q: Blazing Saddles also makes frequent use of the "N-word." Could you get away with that today? A: Never. If they did a remake of Blazing Saddles today, they would leave out the N-word. And then, you've got no movie. And I wouldn't have used it so much if I didn't have Richard Pryor with me on the set as one of my writers. And Cleavon Little [as Sheriff Bart] was great. Even though it was allowed, I kept asking Cleavon, "Is that all right there? Is that too much there? Am I pushing this?" and he'd say, "no, no, no, it's perfect there."
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