Steven Bochco Quotes
- Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
- Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
- Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
- I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
- Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and…
- You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
- Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared…
- If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.
- Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
- One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
- Imagery is like music.
- Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
- When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting…
- When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like…