Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.