Welcome to Zach to the Future.

I'm your co-host, Dashel Driscoll, joined today by Bayside's visionary filmmaker, Mark Paul.

Mark Paul.

Hello, Dashel.

What was it like seeing yourself behind the camera?

Was that like, you're like, ooh, I could, I could maybe move into directing.

This looks good for me. Well, I wish I had those aspirations when I was younger, but I didn't, unfortunately.

I do now.

I mean, I have directed two episodes in my entire directing career.

I directed an episode of Franklin and Bash, and then I directed an episode of Stephen

Bocchko's show called Murder in the First with my good friend, Curry Graham, who was also on NYPD Blue with me.

And that was fun to do because I wasn't an actor on that show, and it was just fun to work with Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson, some of the other people and having to work on the camera,

on, you know, the camera side with Stephen Botchko

is just a whole other experience.

But, you know, nowadays, I'm just so envious

of the talent nowadays because

you go into the business going,

I don't just have to be an actor,

or I don't just have to be behind the camera. I can kind of do it all. And I'm envious of that because when I started out,

it was like, well, you can only just be an actor. And if you were an actor, you could only be a

television actor. You couldn't just be a film actor as well. And definitely couldn't do commercials because that was like selling out.

Now people are just like, it's, you know, whatever is creative and fun and makes you money is good for, I think, everyone. Yeah, no one blinks at commercials. No, no. I mean, you can do commercials all day long now. And like, I think it was the,

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