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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

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

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.