Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.