Bochco Quotes

#1. Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

Neil Patrick Harris

#2. But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

David E. Kelley

#3. A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#4. 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

#5. 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 everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you.

Steven Bochco

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

Steven Bochco

#7. 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

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

Steven Bochco

#9. He wouldn't try to make her feel better about something if it meant telling her a lie.

Luanne Rice

#10. I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

Steven Bochco

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

Steven Bochco

#12. 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

#13. The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

Steven Bochco

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

Steven Bochco

#17. I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Steven Bochco

#18. 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.

Steven Bochco

#19. Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Orhan Pamuk

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

Steven Bochco

#21. You can tell your story any way you damn well please

Jandy Nelson

#22. If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Steven Bochco

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

Steven Bochco

#24. Four fabulous days and three glorious nights. More than that, Victoria thought. Fabulous days and glorious nights for the rest of my life.

Jennifer Crusie

#25. Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.

Billy Graham

#26. It was as if he were a single whole, grasped by her first glance at him, like some irreducible absolute, like an axiom not to be explained any further, as if she knew everything about him by direct perception, and what awaited her now was only the process of identifying her knowledge.

Ayn Rand

#27. '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 high drama with very low humor.

Steven Bochco

#28. Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'

Steven Bochco

#29. inside; her body trembling and her legs shaking as

Evelyn Troy

#30. You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod."
"A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course you never mention that.

George Saunders

#31. Imagery is like music.

Steven Bochco

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

Steven Bochco

#33. 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.

Steven Bochco

#34. The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

Steven Bochco