Bochco Steven Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment. — Steven Bochco

DENY, DENY! Women always want to believe you, and if you can give them even a smidgen of doubt, you've got a chance. That's mano-a-mano credo # 1. — Jack Dancer

Imagery is like music. — Steven Bochco

You often appear lost in a world of your own making. It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her. — Sylvia Day

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

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

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

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

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 dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me. — Steven Bochco

Love is the greatest unseen force in the universe." - Cole — Missouri Vaun

They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Dreirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247. — Joseph Heller

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart. — David E. Kelley

Luckily, he had the memory span of a particularly dim goldfish, so with any luck he'd have forgotten all about the comment by the time they'd completed their mission. — Eoin Colfer

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc — Henri Matisse

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

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

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

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

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

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade. — Adam Jones

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

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you want to be a cartoonist, live the life of a cartoonist. — Oliver Gaspirtz

We seem to feel as though the life our children have
that we have built for them
is just a delicate house of cards, held together by the most intricate balancing of all its carefully selected components, and that the slightest shock, the slightest jar to all our perfect orchestration, will bring the whole edifice crashing down. — Judith Warner

Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.' — Steven Bochco

Dressing well was also a sign of respect, for yourself and for others. — Mireille Guiliano

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

'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

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. — Bobby Jones

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

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

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life. — Steven Bochco

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

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time. — Steven Bochco