Jason Alexander quotes
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, you have to start explaining.
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
I remember back when I was doing interviews for Rocky and Bullwinkle, there was this one reporter who came in from Argentina, and she'd ask you a question in Spanish, and then in English.
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
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