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I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
Stephen J. Cannell
Good
People
World
Three
Joke
Believe
Books
Say
Structure
Well
Go
However
Even
Novel
Film
Acts
Thing
I can write a book in probably three months.
Stephen J. Cannell
Book
Three
Months
Write
I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.
Stephen J. Cannell
Love
Sense Of Humor
Wonderful
Dark
Humor
Sense
Dexter
Even the best documentary has somebody's bias.
Stephen McFeely
Best
Somebody
Bias
Documentary
Even
When I tell people I'm a screenwriter, people think I'm automatically artistic, but hell no. I like being part of a team, and I like having a skill that the team values. It's like laying bricks, and I try to be the best bricklayer I can.
Stephen McFeely
Best
People
Try
Values
Hell
Think
Tell
Having
Laying
Part
Like
Artistic
Being
Automatically
Screenwriter
Skill
Team
Bricklayer
Bricks
Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.
Stephen McFeely
Every
Worships
Robert
Altar
Screenwriter
Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form.
Stephen McFeely
Nature
You
Writing
Long
Add
Chapters
Plot
Characters
Objective
More
Tends
Allow
Least
Form
Screenwriting
Depth
Whole
Novel
Film
The thing about Steve Rogers, again and again, is sacrifice.
Stephen McFeely
Sacrifice
About
Steve
Rogers
Again
Thing
You can work very hard on a crappy movie.
Stephen McFeely
Work
You
Very
Movie
Crappy
Hard
I am fairly obsessive compulsive.
Stephen McFeely
Compulsive
Obsessive
Fairly
Am
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
Great
Entertainment
World
Social Media
Sense
YouTube
Television
Entertainment World
Great Sense
Stuff
Interaction
Movies
Social
Much
Inhumanity
Media
Bombarded
Imagery
I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
Steven Bochco
Work
Best
Think
Collaborative
Out
Best Work
Environment
Flows
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
Time
Me
People
Dog
Long
Long Time
Whatever
Resonates
Way
Point
Point Of View
Emotional
Divorce
Stuff
Terms
Always
How
Dies
Storytelling
Really
Interests
View
Your
Moment
Trauma
Even
Lives
Thing
Consequence
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
Steven Bochco
Good
Writing
Problems
Believe
One Of The Problems
Anyone
Process
Themselves
Who
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
Beautiful
You
Melody
Logic
Vivid
Emotional
Emotional Level
Part
Like
Brain
Intellect
Goes
Different
Centers
Your
Speaks
Even
Level
Images
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Steven Bochco
Good
Communication
Words
Understanding
Way
Television
Being
Screenwriter
Requires
Film
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
You
Looking
Recognize
See
Casting
Like
Know
Sort
Paintings
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
Steven Bochco
Work
Me
People
Opportunity
Gave
Ensemble
Admired
Cast
Hill
Blues
Whose
Street
Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'
Steven Bochco
Hill
Always
Privately
Soap
Cop
Street
'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
Nature
Humor
Drama
Our
Characters
Kind
High
Allowed
Indulge
Hill
Because
Wacky
Very
Low
Juxtaposition
Us
Really
Many
Street
I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.
Steven Bochco
Life
Remember
My Life
Joke
Every
Practically
Heard
Ever
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
Thought
Doors
Think
Broader
Those
Television
Would
Network
Network Television
Cable
Open
Always
Did
Blue
While
Much
Created
Really
NYPD
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
Time
You
Law
Mirror
Looking
Spend
Everything
Say
Would
Paralyze
Some
Tend
Hill
Lot
Up
Did
Preconceived
Preconceived Notion
Oh
Blues
Notion
Measure
Rearview
Rearview Mirror
Street
I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.
Steven Shainberg
Hurt
Drawn
Characters
Walking
Barely
Injured
Defeated
Basically
I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.
Steven Shainberg
Love
Long
Through
Enclosed
Being
Spaces
Moving
There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. 'Hit Me' doesn't sell this fantasy.
Steven Shainberg
Me
You
People
Top
Kind
Dream
Rise
Sell
Hit
Person
Movies
Fantasy
Start
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