Dick Wolf Quotations

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

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. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

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 studios to take on deficits.

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 supplying programming to networks.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

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 will still be there.