“I think getting the work out there is always harder than creating it. It’s one of the main reasons I don’t direct anymore. Directors and writers and producers all have hyphens after their professions, the second half being salesmen. I never wanted to be a salesman. It turned my stomach. I’d rather not work at all if I have to spend 4/5th of my time convincing people that it was worth doing.”

Read the rest of my interview with Alan Arkin.