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…

- 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.

- Steven Bochco

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 die…

- Steven Bochco

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. P…

- Steven Bochco

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 b…

- Steven Bochco

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

- Steven Bochco

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanit…

- Steven Bochco

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

- Steven Bochco

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

- Steven Bochco