Paul Michael Glaser Quotes

And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

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.

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

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.

I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

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

A lot of people always look back at 'Twin Peaks' and say that was the start of this explosion we've had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.

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

The fashion industry needs to breed a whole different way of thinking. We need more diverse people working in all facets of the industry.

There's a whole world of bad TV that's along similar themes - the cop drama.

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

Joseph Wambaugh did not invent the police novel, but no one had seen anything like 'The New Centurions' when it was published in 1971. Here was a working, living, breathing cop with a decade of experience on the beat.

The best TV that I watch, I always feel safe when I'm watching it. And that could be like 'Homeland' or 'The Americans'; by 'safety,' I mean the show knows its parameters.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission.

If you look over the history of cinema, changes happen when directors embrace new tools and technology and think outside the box.

It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional center that's not cynical.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock.

I've been watching cop procedurals my entire life, so when I saw an opportunity to make fun of one, I jumped at it.

Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.