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.

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.

Imagery is like music.

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.

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

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

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