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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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