Steven Bochco Quotes
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
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 by the audience.
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 goes to a different part of the brain.
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 you are being attacked by jackals.
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
'Hill Street, ' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.
