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.

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.

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.

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

Romance is everything to turn it into a cause for given is priceless

The irony is that while our world might plead for change, it does its best to suppress it.

There is always time, it is never too late....When you die and you haven't done it, then it's too late!

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

Every game is huge and every game will count when it's all said and done.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!