The More The Art Dominated My Life

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

We Got Sally Field Onboard [in Smokey And The Bandit] And It Changed The Entire Dynamic. About A Third Of The Way Into Filming, I Was In The Car With Sally And There Was This Little Moment Where We Kind Of Looked At Each Other, And Then We Both Turned And Looked Over At Hal [needham]. He Gave Us A Thumbs Up And Said, "yeah!" And We Kind Of Knew There Was Some Magic Going On.

But Then When I'm In A Halfway Successful Movie, It Irritates The Hell Out Of The Critics In New York, Because They'd Like To Kill My Pictures If They Could. So Maybe I'm Pretty Good In The Movie. Then They Use All These Words Like I'm 'surprisingly' Good, Or 'shockingly Enough,' I'm Good. It's Like I Crawled Out From Under A Magazine And They're Surprised I Can Act.

If You've As Many Films As I Have, And Missed As Many Opportunities As I Have To Do Good Work And Been Pissed Off About It, You Say, "well, Now You've Got To Start Getting It Right." If You Get A Chance, You Really Want To Cook. And The Tragedy Is, When You Finally Feel That Way About Yourself, About Your Work, Nobody Wants To Give You A Chance. And That Happens To A Lot Of Actors. But I'm Feeling Very Wanted These Days, So There Must Be Something In The Air.

All You Really Have In The End Are Your Stories.