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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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