I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

In an interview with Good Housekeeping Selleck talked about living and working on his farm "So I like to get outside and work on the farm from fixing roads to clearing brush.

Since 2010 he has appeared as NYPD Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS-TV. including a co-starring role in the highest-grossing movie of 1987 Three Men and a Baby; Quigley Down Under; Mr. Parker novels.