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

Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them right away to start checking things off, they don't know what to do. I think at their best, it applies to when the audience knows what it is. Then, when they say, "Oh, well, I thought it was too boring in blah-blah-blah part," then you better pay attention to it. It's like going for the hamburger. Better be the good hamburger I went for.

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

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

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.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.