All You Really Have In The End

Smokey And The Bandit Was The First Picture [hal Needham ] Directed, And I Knew He Could Handle It. I Had Just Directed Gator, And He Saw My Style And Used That As A Pattern.

I Had Known Hal [needham] For A While By The Time He Moved In, So I Was Sure We'd Get Along Well, And We Did. He'd Go Off And Do His Gigs And I Would Do Mine, And When We Were Lucky We Got To Work On The Same Ones.

I Love Stroker Ace. I Love The Whole Team. Jim Nabors Really Stole The Show, And Ned Beatty, Well I've Made More Of My Movies With Ned Beatty Than Anybody Else.

I Regret That I Do Not Have The Dignity Of Ricardo Montalban, The Class Of Dean Martin, Or The Humor Of Bill Cosby. I Do Have The Heart Of A Lion.

Jay Leno Is Wonderful And A Good Friend, But It Will Always Be The Carson Show To A Lot Of People.