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.

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

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

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

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.

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