It's episodic. One episode takes place here in the States, another in Ecuador, another in Indonesia. Each writer took one region and wrote that section of the show.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

It's hard to get your footing, because it's continually changing during the rehearsal process. It's like directing a workshop show, which also performs. It's hard to have a vision of how to mount the production, since it's always shifting.

The biggest part of it is editing. It takes longer to edit one episode than to shoot it and write it.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a