Rainn Wilson Quotes

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

I didn't watch a lot of cop shows growing up, but I am a huge fan of 'Southland' now.

'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.

The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The French Connection' movie. They showed the tedious side of police work.

My wife loves to watch 'Criminal Minds' and 'CSI' and all those shows.

We loved 'The Crown.' And 'The Killing' and 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson. All those crime shows are always super fun.

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

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

I am a fan of crime investigative series.

'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.

'Law & Order' has the same plot every single episode.

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

I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

I've been offered a lot of police series, but I'm very good at staying away from them. They're usually based on such a boring formula.

Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny.

I've always been a fan of investigation shows.

I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.

I'd love to see the 'CSIs' run forever.