First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.