Quotes by Dick Wolf

About Dick Wolf:

Richard Anthony "Dick" Wolf is an American television producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise. He has won several awards including an Emmy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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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

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

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

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

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

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

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

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?

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

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

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

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

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

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

Dick Wolf

Author Bio

  • NameDick Wolf
  • Descriptionproducer from the United States
  • AliasesRichard Anthony Wolf
  • BornDecember 20, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Producer; Film Producer; Screenwriter; Writer
  • AwardsEmmy Award