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.

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

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.