Richard Anthony Wolf Quotes

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, End

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployed, Vote, Strike

• 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?

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Watch, Pull

• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Career

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Negotiating

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Watch, Letting

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Storytelling

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Friendly, Try

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Home, Still

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, After, Learned

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

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Nothing, Still

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Used, Side

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Free, Television

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

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Heart

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Recognize, Communication

• 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.’

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Argument

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

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Options

• It was like in Samoa when they’d put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Put, Show

• If the scripts are not good, I’ll tell somebody, ‘This isn’t good.’

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tell, Somebody, Scripts

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Wolf

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Right, Saying

Richard Anthony Wolf (33)

Birth:	20th December, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Producer, Writer

About

Richard Anthony "Dick" Wolf is an American producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise.
Throughout his career he has won several awards including an Emmy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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