Status of Publicity in 1965
“To do a series usually means you’re doing it for the money because there’s very little satisfaction in a creative way – and that’s not superior snob talk. I’d be embarrassed to be in some of the stuff I’ve seen on TV. I’ve been offered lots of money and everything on my own terms to do a series. But I don’t want my kids to see me in that kind of mediocre stuff – and I don’t want to see myself in it. If you get stuck with a bad movie sometime at least that is soon over with. TV has a factory approach – get it done fast, it doesn’t matter how good it is. As Mr. Bogart used to say – this is the age of mediocrity. I want to work as much as anyone else. I do appear on panel shows once in awhile – but that’s not like doing something dramatic.”
