I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.