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The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

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I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television.

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Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.

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When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

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