Dylan McDermott Quotes

You can't beat a cop drama. That's what everybody seems to want to watch.

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.

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.

'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

I make movies on gritty topics like crime, the underworld, and horror. I don't make movies with good-looking people in good-looking locales.

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic.

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger's brow, the muggy air stifles - one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

'The Glades' is a light cop procedural about a cop from Chicago who got shot in the bum by his captain and made a change down to Florida, so he's a bit of a fish out of water.

'Southland' is very real; it's not about who found the hair in the bed. There are procedural aspects to it, but it's not about that.

A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The French Connection' movie. They showed the tedious side of police work.

I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

I've been offered a lot of police series, but I'm very good at staying away from them. They're usually based on such a boring formula.

I am a huge fan of shows like 'Breaking Bad,' 'Dexter,' 'The Mentalist.'