Matt Passmore Quotes

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

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.

I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are just incredible.

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

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

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

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

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

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

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

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

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.'

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

You know you're an actor in New York when you're on 'SVU.'

I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

I'm part of the crew obsessed with 'The Wire.' Like, I'm not over that yet.

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.

'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.

My favorite TV show is probably 'Power.'

Joseph Wambaugh did not invent the police novel, but no one had seen anything like 'The New Centurions' when it was published in 1971. Here was a working, living, breathing cop with a decade of experience on the beat.

I liked 'The Wire.'

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

I am a fan of crime investigative series.

'Line Of Duty' is first and foremost a thriller. But I hope it will also be seen as a revisionist commentary on 21st century policing.