I really wanted an opportunity to work with him again, and he was enthusiastic about the idea,

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

The Deployment.

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

Bob has a terrific metabolism for that job, … He may not have been the exciting choice, given all of the drama that surrounded the whole issue of succession. But I think he is absolutely...

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

[Still, Law was a gamble for NBC.] My big fear, … was that it would just be talking heads-blah, blah, blah.

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.

Saved By the Bell.

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

I’d like an hourly progress report on the FEMA teams on the ground.

Imagery is like music.

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

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

Every day, there are thousands of crimes all over America — assaults, rapes, molestations, kidnappings, murders — creating legions of victims and families of victims. But nobody would ever say you shouldn’t do a show...

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.

When your ass is on the block, politics is a luxury.

Tuesday night is arguably the most competitive night on television and on the schedule. And Tuesday at 9 o’clock (EST), if you’ve noticed, is a very, very difficult time slot under the best of circumstances.

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

I’m very respectful of the distressing imagery that a show like this, or even NYPD Blue, is capable of evoking in people.

We sort of shut the company down for three or four weeks so that, as a writing group, we could take a deep breath and have a little time to think and plan and get...

I don’t think there’s going to be a SAG strike,

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