Gary Sherman

Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have. ”

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield. ”

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence. ”

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life. ”

I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush. ”

I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life. ”

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted. ”

Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys. ”

I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that. ”

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be. ”