I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.
I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.
It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.
That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.
When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.
I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.
The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.
Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.