Mel Brooks said at this event prior to the Q&A screening: "I'm so thrilled that we're seeing 'The Producers' fifty years later on a big screen. We're not seeing it on a watch or a television. I really like going to the theater. I like the community experience. I like being in the dark and being transported into different worlds, it's very important to me. And now there's a thing replacing it. It's called streaming. If I make another movie, I don't want it to be seen by millions of people on a phone. Comedies must be seen by at least 100 people in some kind of theater. Is really heartbreaking to me."