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.

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

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

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

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.

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