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.
I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.
Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
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.