The dominant tone of her own accounts of her career is one of self-deprecation. Of her first directing experience, on "Laverne & Shirley": “By the sixth, seventh year, who wants to direct this week — the script girl, first AD, the camera coordinator, whoever. There's one door.” (This was a story she repeated nearly word for word.) They said, ‘You'll be yourself.’ What else am I? This is what I am."

Source: Los Angeles Times December 19, 2018 08:07 UTC