Joseph Wambaugh Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.”

“Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.”

“The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.”

“The time has come for professional jurors.”

“I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.”

“I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.”

“I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.”

“What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.”

“When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.”

“When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.”