So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? |
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder. |
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. |
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist. |
There was nothing real about teenagers - nobody talked about them in those days, nobody did anything about them. |
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. |
We definitely would have to look for other funding. |
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. |
You've just got to be careful with them, |