Television Vs. Movies

“I started out in television. My basic training is television. I love the activity of television. It’s fast, there’s a lot to do. It’s a real job, you know? And I like that. I like going to work every day and having a lot of tasks to perform. I think there’s a lot of bullshit in the movie business. People sit around and do a lot of lunch and waste a lot of money. I think it’s a pretty undisciplined business. 

I like the size of television. I like the kind of storytelling that it encourages. And mostly I like the kind of storytelling that it encourages. And mostly…mostly I like the control that I have in television, which I would never have in movies. The movie business is not a writer’s medium—it’s a director’s medium. I’m not a director. I’m a writer. In television, the writer controls continuity and ultimately has the power. For me, being in television means I essentially have creative control of what I do–win, lose or draw.”
Steven Bochco (NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues)
10-Time Primetime Emmy Winner
Everything You Might Expect…and More
Interview with Rita Street
Film & Video, June 1998