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
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.
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.
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.
bloody came great point strikes three
The great strikes of the '50s and '60s were bloody and awful, but at that point there were only three networks. Everyone came back to work.
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.'
dream cop
[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."
book goes-on internet
There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.
change support-systems fundamentals
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
book character writing
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
people show-business shows
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
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.
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.
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.
talking trying want
I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.