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21 quotes by Steven Bochco

Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is a US television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D., and NYPD Blue, as well as some notable flops such as Cop Rock.
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I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

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'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... →

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The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of... →

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Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

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Imagery is like music.

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

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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... →

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I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and... →

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The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog... →

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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

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

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

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

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