Steven Bochco

Producer

1943-12-16

Quotes by 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• '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.

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