There was only so much television you could do.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

There was only so much television you could do.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.