American - Producer | December 20, 1946 -
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.
Dick Wolf
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It's show business. No show, no business.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
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I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
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I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
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