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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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

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

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're 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

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.

Dick Wolf

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

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.'

Dick Wolf

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

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.

Dick Wolf

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

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

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

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

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

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