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

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.

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.

Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.Our behavior, attitude & approach makes them become either one.

A step towards love is a leap towards the divine.

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Every problem is a new puzzle.

Those Grizzlies are more like pandas.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

Desire God, and you will have desires from God.