Steven Bochco Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'”

“Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.”

“I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television.”

“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.”