American - Producer | December 16, 1943 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
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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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Imagery is like music.
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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 Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
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