All Joseph Wambaugh Quotes
- It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head Been
- The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that… Close
- Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. Both
- What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. Component
- Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. Book
- I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. Detective
- I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating. Done Anything
- I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while. Admit
- I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years… Both
- If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down… All
- Civil servants take forever to do anything. Civil
- I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. Adapt
- When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. Field
- The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to. Case
- No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back… Book
- Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen. Funny
- The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. Anymore
- The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. Apprehend
- The time has come for professional jurors. Funny
- Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. Attacking
- What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it… Ass
- When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. Accused
- As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people. All
- You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it. Dna