Dick Wolf Quotes

Author Image

Dick Wolf

Profession : Producer

Birth : December 20, 1946

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.

Dick Wolf

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

Dick Wolf

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

Dick Wolf

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

Dick Wolf

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Dick Wolf

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

Dick Wolf

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

Dick Wolf

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.

Dick Wolf

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.

Dick Wolf

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.

Dick Wolf

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.'

Dick Wolf

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

Dick Wolf