40 Quotes by Steven Bochco

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they’re good.

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