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.

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

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

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.

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.

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.