Would Sam Raimi ever direct an episode?
Sam Raimi will never direct an episode of Burn Notice because it’s done too quickly. Sam is used to shooting these big, big, big, big, big movies, and it takes 100 days or more to film a two-hour piece of entertainment. We film these shows in seven days, so it’s a real different mentality of features versus television. So I wouldn’t wish that on Sam, because it’s actually a difficult challenge every week to pull these shows off. Not that Spider-Man 3 isn’t, but we have a little bit of a different circumstance here. Is Sam Raimi a fan of the show? Sam, I don’t know that if he’s watched the show, I don’t think he has. I don’t think he’s a big TV guy. He’s very aware of the show because I keep tormenting him that we’re like the number one show on cable, and whenever we’re number one in something, whether it’s Sam is number one at the box office or we’re, as friends, we always will send that needling e-mail saying “Yeah, man, number one on cable.” Then he would send something of, “Oh, yeah
