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.
From Steven Bochco
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
'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.
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 tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you.
Imagery is like music.
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'
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