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
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I was running Miami Vice, but it wasn't my show so I got to learn an enormous amount. You were basically getting trained to have your own show.
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When this strike is over, there will be fewer jobs. The people who were unemployed prior to the strike aren't going to be the first ones back to work.
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T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you don't like what you're watching it can be a very painful process.
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To quote General Patton, 'I don't like paying for the same real estate twice.' If it's not done, you say, 'This is not what we agreed on.'
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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?
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As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.
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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.
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The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
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It's a very competitive business. And everybody I know who does it is extremely competitive, but they show it or don't show it in different ways.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.