I never thought of myself as a writer.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

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

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

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.