Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Steven BochcoBeing a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Steven BochcoThe 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.
Steven Bochco