[on his experience as an American writing for
The Starlost (1973), a Canadian science-fiction series] What really surprised me is that there was a great deal of national chauvinism on the set. I was a "Yankee". For the first time in life I heard the phrase, "The flea knows how to live with the elephant". Every piece of advice I gave was completely ignored. As the series progressed, it wasn't just despair I felt, but the numb acceptance that this was as good as it was going to get. When I saw the first screening I wanted to run away and hide.