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I Just Want People To Remember Me A Hundred Years From Now. I Don't Care That They're Not Able To Quote Any Single Line That I've Written. But Just That They Can Say, "oh, He Was A Writer." That's Sufficiently An Honored Position For Me.

I Choose To Think Of Tv Audience As Nameless, Formless, Faceless People Who Are All Like Me. And Anything That I Write, If I Like It, They'll Like It.

I Miss The Comraderie Of Live Television - The Fact That You Were On The Set, You Worked Closely With The Director And The Cast, That I Miss. But, No, I'm Happy, I'm Happy Doing Film.

Emmies, For Example, Most Of That's Bullshit. Oscars Are Even Worse. We Have A Strange, Terrible Affliction In This Town. Everybody Walks Around Bent-backed From Slapping Each Other On The Backs So Much. It Looks Like Arthritis But It Isn't. It's Hunger For Recognition. And It's Sort Of Like, Well, I'll Scratch You This Time If You'll Scratch Me Next Time. That Kind Of Thing.

In Almost Everything I've Written There Is A Thread Of This: Man's Seemingly Palpable Need To Dislike Someone Other Than Himself.