“I said in an interview a million years ago that I would do this for free … My agent at the time gave me a stern talking to, ‘Don’t ever say that you would do anything for free.’ It’s now 30 years later and I would do every second of this for free. And I don’t care that I will never work again because of it or never make another penny. It’s the truth.”
"I'm so grateful for 'Lost in Space,' you have no idea. A robot who was my straight man? Come on, you don't get that every day."
"To my way of thinking, that speech was badly misinterpreted. It didn't condemn all of television. It said there are great things in television which are unique in uniting and serving the country, but you, the broadcasters, have got to remember that you are trustees for all of us. That you have got to pay more attention to your obligations to children. You've got to pay more attention to not only the bottom line, but to public service."
"If I came on to direct a running series it could be a drag because you couldn't change the characters, the lead characters, the sustaining characters. You didn't want to create a whole new visual style because it was established. But the anthologies and pilots I loved doing- on those you could always try something new and different."