The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.