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Steven Bochco

American Producer

Born: Dec 16, 1943

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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. Steven Bochco

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

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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

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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. Steven Bochco

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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. Steven Bochco

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

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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. Steven Bochco

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

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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. Steven Bochco

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

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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

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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. Steven Bochco

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