Steven Bochco Quotes


"You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Experience, Word)

"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
(Related: Intellect, Logic)

"One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Problems, Writing)

"Imagery is like music."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Music)

"I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Work, Environment)

"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
(Related: Experience, First, Memory, Television)

"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Power, Opportunity, Ideas, Film)

"Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Being, Communication, Film, Television, Understanding, Words)

"Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Work, People, Opportunity)