I Wanted To Work With Bert Lahr

You Know, You Throw Rocks In The Lake And Scientists Will Tell You You're Raising The Level Of The Lake, But All You Get To See Is The Ripple.

Bud [yorkin] Broke Out Big When He Did 'the Fred Astaire Show' And Won Four Emmys. His Wife At The Time Suggested That We Team Up. We Got A Lot Of Press In Show Business Papers, And A Number Of Offers...we Eventually Signed With Paramount Pictures. But I Always Like To Say, His Was The Horse That We Rode In On. That Is My Favorite Recollection.

I Think America, Unfortunately, Collectively Thinks Of Itself As The 'chosen People.' To My Knowledge, There Are No Chosen People, We Are All Human Beings.

In This Nation, Leadership Is Dollars.

I Wanted To Work With Bert Lahr [the 'cowardly Lion' In 'the Wizard Of Oz'], And I Did.