I don’t think the franchise has a wear-out factor. There are gonna be great stories forever. My only mantra is: Keep the brand healthy.

It’s show business. No show, no business.

I’m certainly not gonna say that there should never be another show with Law & Order in the title.

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

We stopped doing that about six episodes in — even though we’d built nice big sets — because it just stopped the storytelling cold.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That’s something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

No blood on the floor.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you’ve got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That’s why you get rhetoric.