My court skills may have atrophied.

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.