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Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.