Steven Bochco
Steven Bochco
Steven Ronald Bochcois an American television producer and writer. He has developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D. and NYPD Blue...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth16 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful emotional brain
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.
memories television might
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.
media bombarded-by inhumanity-to-man
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.
aerospace casting painting
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
imagery
Imagery is like music.
shooting kind behavior
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.
stories television film
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
passion decision risk
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.
dog divorce emotional
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.
storm pressure gone
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.
communication understanding television
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
opportunity ideas film
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
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.
Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'