Top 21 Quotes by Steven Bochco

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

'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.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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