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

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.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

Talent was not rare

The boy I was craved Kat. The man I am craves Milla.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

Beauty is not beauty without love.