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

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

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.

Imagery is like music.

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

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

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