Imagery is like music.

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.

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

We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion.

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

If you know how to cheat, start now.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.