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.

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

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

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

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