Dick Wolf Quotes & Sayings

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

“I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.”

“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.”

“As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.”

“I hardly see myself as a futurist.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”