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"'Captain Video and His Video Rangers' started off from scratch, no advance notice or publicity. It caught on so rapidly that we caught up with Milton Berle's rating, and he was Mr. Television! He was at 37.6, and we got 37.4 or something... When word got back from the front office that 'Captain Video' was even with Berle, it was unbelievable!"

"I remember once at 'Saturday Night Live' having spent the night in my office. There was a heavy snowfall overnight, and I looked out the window onto 5th Avenue and I saw that the entire street was covered with pristine fresh snow. I just felt very joyful and I thought the eight-year-old me always wanted to stay in the city— when you would be going to FAO Schwarz and the Museum of Natural History— and I was always like, 'someday I'm not going to leave.' I thought if someone had said to that eight-year-old, 'well, yes you will do this, you will have this moment,' I would have been just thrilled."

"It's very tough to get somebody to give you a job as a director because there's so much at stake. Everybody's afraid that if they pick you to be a director and the thing fails, they're going to take the rap for it."