Dick Wolf Quotes

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• 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…
• And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
• I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
• 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…
• The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
• As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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