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.

I don't think there's going to be a SAG strike,

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

I'm very respectful of the distressing imagery that a show like this, or even NYPD Blue, is capable of evoking in people.

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.

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.