I Come From Bridgeport, Connecticut And Have

Of Course, I Had A Crush On Princess Leia. I Really Wanted To Ask Her Out, Back To My Place, Or Something. But At The Time, I Was Living In A Squat On Fitzroy Road In Primrose Hill. It Was Pretty Derelict. So What Was I Going Do? Ask Her To Come Back With Me And Watch Me Catch Mice?

I Don't Know How Many Days I Worked There [on Star Wars]. The Thing I Do Remember Was I Somehow Got A Parking Space Next To Kermit The Frog. It Was Jim Henson's Space, With This Kermit The Frog Sign. I Took A Photo Of It And Sent It To My Mom With A Caption That Read, "look, Mom. I Made It. I Got A Parking Space Next To Kermit The Frog." I Was Always Fascinated By The Film-set Infrastructures.

[ Oval House] Director, Peter Oliver, Gave You The Right To Fail. He Had A Philosophy That Came From Winston Churchill That You Go From Failure To Failure With Enthusiasm. So Peter Gave Us A Go And That's How Ray [hassett] And I Ended Up Starting Sal's Meat Market At The Oval House.

It Was The Last Generation Of Writers [ The Cheers] That Had Grown Up Reading Books Instead Of Watching Tv. So You Weren't Getting Anything That Was Derivative Of I Love Lucy Or Happy Days. You Were Getting Real Characters [like Those] They Read In P.g. Wodehouse Or Dickens Or Somewhere Along The Line, Because They Had All Grown Up With A Love Of Literature.

But From What I Can See All Around Me Today, That America Is Fading Fast, If It's Not Already Gone.