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

Imagery is like music.

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

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

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.

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

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