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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.