We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Comedy was all I ever wanted.
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.