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.

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.

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

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

Imagery is like music.

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