Dick Wolf
Dick Wolf
Richard Anthony "Dick" Wolfis an American television producer, best known as the creator and executive producer of the Law & Order franchise of police dramas. He has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth20 December 1946
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people wells
I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
work people rude
I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
art cutting discipline
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.
futurist
I hardly see myself as a futurist.
scripts ifs
If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.
agreed estate general paying quote
To quote General Patton, 'I don't like paying for the same real estate twice.' If it's not done, you say, 'This is not what we agreed on.'
edited painful watching
T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you don't like what you're watching it can be a very painful process.
executives fast letting people rid stop watch
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.
american-producer disturbing people
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.
series
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
basically
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.
complacent gets soon
As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.
advertising american-producer department early focus hated highest history people sales watch
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?
american-producer fewer people prior strike unemployed
When this strike is over, there will be fewer jobs. The people who were unemployed prior to the strike aren't going to be the first ones back to work.