If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.
There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.
In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.
But, at the end of the day, we want to have a show where we can focus on these individuals and their relationships with each other. That's really what the show is about.
Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.
'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.
For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.
I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.
No character in a soap is indispensable.
