Dick Wolf Quotes

• It's show business. No show, no business.

  Dick Wolf

  Business, Shows, Show Business

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• I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

  Dick Wolf

  Thinking, People, Wells

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• Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

  Dick Wolf

  Successful, Risk, Loser

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• There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

  Dick Wolf

  Book, Goes On, Internet

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• I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

  Dick Wolf

  Work, People, Rude

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• I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

  Dick Wolf

  Thinking, Watches, Stories

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• 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

  Walking Away, People, Car

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• I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

  Dick Wolf

  Talking, Trying, Done

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• 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

  Art, Cutting, Discipline

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• I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

  Dick Wolf

  Business, People, Style

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• 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

  Movie, Running, Beach

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• If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

  Dick Wolf

  Scripts, Ifs

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• People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

  Dick Wolf

  New York, Communication, Mean

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• 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

  Television, Vote, Structure

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• I hardly see myself as a futurist.

  Dick Wolf

  Futurist

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• I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

  Dick Wolf

  Work, Community, Strikes

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• People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

  Dick Wolf

  Time, Years, Numbers

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• 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

  Running, Money, Successful

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• 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

  Stars, Drama, Way

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• And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

  Dick Wolf

  Tv Shows, Watches, Care

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• 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

  Change, Home, Night

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• The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

  Dick Wolf

  Heart, Character, House

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• 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

  Different, Agendas, Tables

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• 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

  Trying, Friendly, Employment

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• 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

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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