If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.