Police Procedural Quotes

Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura is the most different from me personally that I've ever played. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went. I'm like that, and that is not Laura at all.

I think I have made too many cop films.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

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

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

There's nothing - there's nothing - as action-packed as 'Hawaii Five-O.'

I liked the idea of working with Jean Reno and Mathieu Kassovitz; there was something logical for me. I thought it was a good thing to do. Actually, The Crimson Rivers movie was a big success, and it was one of the biggest successes I ever had in France.

I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

Nothing really compares to the original 'Law & Order.'

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.

I've been watching 'Luther' since the beginning. My family adore it, too, so it was like a passion project for me.

'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on to a new case in each series, centred on a high-profile antagonist accused of corruption.

I think of myself as a softy. I think the 87th Precinct novels are very sentimental, and the cops are idealistic guys.

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score.

Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.

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

'Law & Order' is a dream come true. I grew up watching it! I always wanted to portray a character on the show because it's always so riveting.

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.