(Granite Hills) is a tough team. We just couldn't penetrate them. We had opportunities but we couldn't put it in. |
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. |
Also, I was very excited about somebody considering I had a talent they could develop a little bit, and very anxious to please. |
But I want to do good work, after this series. |
But the working I would always want to do. |
For the child actor, it was difficult. |
From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own. |
I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that. |
I had directed a little in summer theater, and I liked it, and I started getting interested in directing, in live television. |
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 just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was. |
I need a steady job like running in this new series, because we own the negative to every show that goes on the air, my partner and I. |
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. |