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" Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. "
Television
Communication
Good
" Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. "
Recognize
See
Know
" 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. "
Create
Assuming
Culture
" Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. "
Power
Ideas
Marry
" 'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor. "
Kind
Nature
Street
" Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. "
People
Work
Street
" 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. "
Experience
Street
Memory
" 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. "
Blue
Television
Thought
" Imagery is like music. "
Like
Music
Imagery
" I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life. "
My Life
Joke
Heard
" I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you. "
Looking
Law
Measure
" I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment. "
Think
Best
Environment
" One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. "
Who
Problems
Good
" Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.' "
Soap
Hill
Always
" Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. "
Story
You
Experience
" The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction. "
World
Great
Sense
" 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. "
Dog
Divorce
Moment
" 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. "
Emotional
Beautiful
You
" 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. "
Show
You
Like
" 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. "
Classic
Kind
Look
" You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience. "
Word
Had
Learn
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