Author: Steven Bochco

Quotes

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

- Steven Bochco

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.

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.

- Steven Bochco

Imagery is like music.

Imagery is like music.

- Steven Bochco

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

- Steven Bochco

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

- Steven Bochco

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

- Steven Bochco

'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.

'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.

- Steven Bochco

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

- Steven Bochco

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

- Steven Bochco

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