There was only so much television you could do.

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.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

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.

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

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