The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

Everybody who's making the movies needs to work hard to make sure they're good. And if you don't show up and see the movies and support them financially, no one is going to make them. It's going to change unless it makes money. That's the long and short of it. You have to give in to the fact that it's a business.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.