with amc or the studio, lionsgate, i think they wanted to cut some costs, and there was some news about them cutting costs, so there were predictions that someone would go, and then richard, the guy who went up the tower, that was featured, and then pour jared. he did not make it. yes, i guess it was a pretty dark season, to answer your question. tavis: i will not belabor this point, but since you were discussing it, i was talking about this when the season started, a whole debacle and debate about the network wanting to cut some minutes out of the show. i want to ask you because you are dropped -- not just a star of the show, you direct some episodes. what is your take as a director, having to lose some time to make that happen? >> i remember watching sean penn on some shows, talking about commercials, that he did not want to do television because of the commercials, and i understand it now. directors even more so, because it is an interruption, and you need that time. to tell the story. you have 44 minutes, i think, with all of the commercials. i know they turn the lights on and pay t