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
Dick Wolf quotes about
movie running beach
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.
thinking people wells
I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
successful risk loser
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.'
business show-business shows
It's show business. No show, no business.
thinking television want
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
people show-business shows
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
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.
talking trying want
I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
walking-away people car
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
people response
I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'
work community strikes
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.
time years numbers
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.
running money successful
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.
dream cop
[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."