Bruce Springsteen

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.