I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Imagery is like music.

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

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.

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

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

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.