The Importance of a Good Job

"I want to be making my own things. That's what I want to do," he says of his career path. "My parents never quite understood how show business worked because that wasn't their frame of reference, but they couldn't have been more supportive throughout my dad's past now and my mom too." He was at Paramount when he got his first job as an actor before working for Mary Tyler Moore in the early '70s on TV shows like "MAS*H" and "Hill Street Blues"