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Dick Wolf Quotes
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 Quotes
And the consumer doesnt care. They dont watch networks, they watch TV shows. - Dick Wolf Quotes
As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled. - Dick Wolf Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. - Dick Wolf Quotes
I dont 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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I hardly see myself as a futurist. - Dick Wolf Quotes
I think most people dont react well to being screamed at. Its counterproductive. - Dick Wolf Quotes
I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible. - Dick Wolf Quotes
I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people. - Dick Wolf Quotes
I was running Miami Vice, but it wasnt my show so I got to learn an enormous amount. You were basically getting trained to have your own show. - Dick Wolf Quotes
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, dont go out on strike because then theres no work and no potential of work. - Dick Wolf Quotes
If the scripts are not good, Ill tell somebody, This isnt good. - Dick Wolf Quotes
If youre 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 Quotes
It was like in Samoa when theyd 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 Quotes
Its a very competitive business. And everybody I know who does it is extremely competitive, but they show it or dont show it in different ways. - Dick Wolf Quotes
Its show business. No show, no business. - Dick Wolf Quotes
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. Thats something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time. - Dick Wolf Quotes
People recognize certain things, like D means this dialogue stinks. Were dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity. - Dick Wolf Quotes
T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you dont like what youre watching it can be a very painful process. - Dick Wolf Quotes
TIVO executives stand up and say, Well, were not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it. I mean, please. - Dick Wolf Quotes
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do. - Dick Wolf Quotes
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 Quotes
The environment doesnt 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 Quotes
The great strikes of the 50s and 60s were bloody and awful, but at that point there were only three networks. Everyone came back to work. - Dick Wolf Quotes
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. - Dick Wolf Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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