Dick Wolf quotes

It's show business. No show, no business. (Dick Wolf)
I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people. View quote
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I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive. View quote
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There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I hardly see myself as a futurist. (Dick Wolf)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows. View quote
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I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled. (Dick Wolf)
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.' View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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