Jackie Cooper

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?