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Imagery is like music.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Imagery
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Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Cop
Soap
Privately
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I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Life Remember My Life
Practically
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I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Best Work
Environment
Flow
Thinking
Best Work Think
Flows
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If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Done
Prison Time
Taste
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Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Opportunity
Film
Ideas
Marry
Images
Provides
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Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Opportunity
Ensemble
People
Work Opportunity Me
Admired
Blues
Cast
Street
Gave
Whose
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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 / Television Producer
Aerospace
Casting
Painting
Recognize
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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Communication
Television
Understanding
Good Words Way
Requires
Screenwriter
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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 / Television Producer
Believe
Problem
Writing
One Of The Problems
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You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Blueprints
Directors
Giving
Visuals
Blueprint
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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.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Film
Mediums
Stories
Television
Interior
Streamlined
Whereas
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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.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Caught
Gone
Pressure
Staggering
Storm
Attacked
Awry
Perceived
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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.
Steven Bochco / Television Producer
Cumulative
Firsts
Memories
Television
Blues
Episode
Memory
Shared
Television Show
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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 / Television Producer
Classic
Fascinating
Mark
Snapchat
Billionaires
Mark Zuckerberg
Tale
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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 / Television Producer
Indulge
Juxtaposition
Wacky
Low
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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 / Television Producer
Beautiful
Brain
Emotional
Intellect
Logic
Melody
Vivid
Centers
Emotional Level
Images
Speaks
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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 / Television Producer
Blue
Doors
Nypd
Broader
Cable
Network
Network Television
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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 / Television Producer
Bombarded
Bombarded By
Imagery
Inhumanity
Inhumanity To Man
Interaction
Media
Social Media
Youtube
Great Movies World
Entertainment World
Great Sense
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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.
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Behavior
Kind
Shooting
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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 / Television Producer
Notion
Rearview Mirror
Blues
Street
Spend
Measure
Paralyze
Preconceived
Preconceived Notion
Rearview
Tend
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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 / Television Producer
Decision
Passion
Risk
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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 / Television Producer
Assuming
Cop
Mirrors
Provocative
Conflicts
Definition
Emotionally
Extent
Stark
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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 / Television Producer
Divorce
Dog
Emotional
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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 / Television Producer
Consequence
Divorce
Point Of View
Trauma
Time Moment Always
Resonates
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