From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

Movies are movies, television is television.