Zitat des Tages von Steven Bochco:
I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
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.
Imagery is like music.
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
'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.
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.
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.
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.
I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.
I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television.
