Dick Wolf

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Dick Wolf

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can…

— Dick Wolf

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often…

— 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…

— Dick Wolf

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

— Dick Wolf

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental…

— 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…

— Dick Wolf

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

— Dick Wolf

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a…

— 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

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because…

— Dick Wolf

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

— 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…

— 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

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

— Dick Wolf

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

— 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.'…

— Dick Wolf

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have…

— Dick Wolf

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

— Dick Wolf

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of…

— Dick Wolf

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

— Dick Wolf

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much…

— Dick Wolf