Legacy Work Quotes

I want to make something great. I want to make something that I can be proud of in 10 years, something that is timeless.

I did three of the original 'Twilight Zone' episodes, yes. Also, I did a little thing in the feature film, and then I wrote one of the episodes in 'The Twilight Zone's last round where I starred with Cloris Leachman and my daughter Liliana in a true sequel to 'It's a Good Life.' So, yes, I have a good 'Twilight Zone' alumni jacket.

I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.