Steven Bochco famous quotes

04-17-2025

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
-- Steven Bochco

#Opportunity #Ideas #Film
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
-- Steven Bochco

#Communication #Understanding #Way
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.
-- Steven Bochco

#Storm #Pressure #Gone
I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
-- Steven Bochco

#Thinking #Flow #Environment
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 the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.
-- Steven Bochco

#Passion #Decision #Risk
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
-- Steven Bochco

#Stories #Television #Film
Imagery is like music.
-- Steven Bochco

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

#Believe #Writing #Problem
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
-- Steven Bochco

#Aerospace #Casting #Painting
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
-- Steven Bochco

#Opportunity #People #Ensemble
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

#Memories #Television #Might
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
-- Steven Bochco

#Giving #Directors #Blueprints
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.
-- Steven Bochco

#Beautiful #Emotional #Brain
If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.
-- Steven Bochco

#Taste #Done #Prison

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