We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting because the best actors see the material they’re working on through blinders. They can’t see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.