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
thinking television want
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.
people show-business shows
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
art cutting discipline
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
talking trying want
I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
walking-away people car
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
people response
I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'
work community strikes
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.
time years numbers
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.
running money successful
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.
dream cop
[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."
book character writing
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
change support-systems fundamentals
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
book goes-on internet
There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.
american-producer environment great television universal
Well, television has become an unforgiving environment and you don't get to make mistakes. That was the great thing about Universal in the old days.