Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

But the working I would always want to do.

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

There was only so much television you could do.

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.