Dick Wolf Quotes


As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled. Dick Wolf Become 78
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits. Dick Wolf Base 67
I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people. Dick Wolf Rude 66
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. Dick Wolf Business 61
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Dick Wolf Angeles 60
It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim. Dick Wolf Movies 58
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. Dick Wolf Backbone 58
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. Dick Wolf Advertising 57
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. Dick Wolf Bored 47
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there. Dick Wolf Home 45
There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie. Dick Wolf Book 44
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. Dick Wolf business 42
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change. Dick Wolf Aspect 42
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. Dick Wolf Audience 40
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. Dick Wolf Agendas 35
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike. Dick Wolf Health 35
Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make. Dick Wolf Company 32
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do. Dick Wolf Delivers 26
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. Dick Wolf Characters 26
I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible. Dick Wolf communication 26
I hardly see myself as a futurist. Dick Wolf Hardly 24

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