Quotes by Steven Bochco

• Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
• You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
• 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.
• One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
• Imagery is like music.
• I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
• 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.
• Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
• Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
• Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.