On Miami Vice and Battlestar Galactica: Miami, although it took place among policemen, wasn`t about reality. It exploited reality to entertain. Battlestar is another thing. Despite it being set in space, it deals with real stuff.
Sometimes you gotta do things that you don`t really want to do. But you don`t do them for money. Speaking of his role as the laconic "Lt. Castillo" on "Miami Vice" (1984): "I was the highest-paid actor--per word--in the history of television!".
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.