Steven Bochco quotes
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“Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.”
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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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“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.”
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“I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.”
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“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.”
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“Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.”
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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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“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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“Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.”
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“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.”
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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 a different part of the brain.”
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“If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.”
-- Steven Bochco
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