All Dick Wolf Quotes
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
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I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
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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
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When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
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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.
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There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
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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.
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